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greyer brown ; an inverted comma-shaped ochreous discoidal mark 

 with bilobate head, defined by black and a few silvery blue scales; 

 the medial black line arising from below costa just beyond the 

 discoidal mark, exjurved and slightly waved beyond it and angled 

 inwards below it on vein 2, then oblique and waved to inner margin 

 before middle ; an oblique postmedial ochreous brown band from 

 costa to vein 6 ; an oblique waved subterminal dark line defining 

 the inner edge of the paler terminal area. Hind wing black-brown 

 to beyond middle, the terminal area greyer brown, with numerous 

 indistinct dark striae. Underside of both wings fuscous brown ; 

 fore wing with an oblique postmedial ochreous white band from 

 below costa to vein 6 formed by two bars and ochreous white spots 

 below veins 4 and 2. 



Ab. 1. Both wings with the terminal area much greyer; fore 

 wing with greyish line from the oblique bar, angled inwards in 

 discal fold and outwards below veins 4 and 2 ; hind wing with 

 diffused postmedial and terminal black-brown band. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen grey-brown ; fore wing grey- 

 brown with the dark striae distinct, the oblique bar and pale line 

 arising from it defined on inner side by fuscous suffusion ; hind wing 

 grey-brown with the dark striae distinct, faint diffused antemedial 

 and medial dark lines, and a sinuous subterminal maculate line. 



Hah. Punjab, Jubbulpore (F. Butler), 1 $ ; Assam, Khasis, 2 $ 

 type ; Bombay, Kanara, 1 S ; Madras, Nilgiris {Hampson), 2 c? , 

 3 2 ' Exp. 76-88 millim. 



B. Hind wing of male with the costal lobe, the glandular 

 patch, and veina 4 to 8 moderately developed. 



a. Fore wing of female with the postmedial line excurved 



between veins 4 and 3. 

 o} . Fore wing with the medial line not waved below 



costa caprinmlgus. 



b^. Fore wing with the medial line waved below costa . orlon. 



b. Fore wing of female with the postmedial line straight 



from vein 6 to 2 sumatrensis. 



7399. Nyctipao caprimulgus. 



Nochia caprimulgus, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 210 (1781) ; Hmpsn. Moths 



lud. ii. p. 460. 

 Nyctipao exterior, Wlk. xiv. 1308 (1858) ; Butl. 111. Het. B.M. vi. p. 45, 



pi. 112. f. 3. 

 Nyctipao obliterans, Wlk. xiv. 1307 (1858). 

 Nyctipao truncata, Moore, P. Z. S. 1877, p. 608. 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, the last with the 

 genital tufts fulvous yellow. Fore wing black-brown ; an inverted 

 comma-shaped discoidal mark with bilobate head, defined by black 

 and silvery blue and on inner side by ochreous white, a black patch 

 beyond it, the black medial line arising just beyond it below the 

 costa, excurved round it, angled inwards below it on vein 2, then 

 sinuous to inner margin ; traces of a lunulate pale and blackish 

 subterminal line. Hind wing black-brown, an indistinct oblique 



