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with black shade before it forming a large quadrate patch below 

 costa ; hiad wing with the antemedial line minutely waved, a 

 blackish postmedial shade and indistinct sinuous subterminal line 

 defined by greyish, the area beyond it with faint dark striae ; the 

 underside with postmedial series of small white spots in the inter- 

 spaces, angled outwards below vein 7, and subterminal series of 

 slight white and blackish lunules. 



Ab. 1. exterior. Both wings with the postmedial line white and 

 prominent with slight grey irroration beyond it. 



Ab. 2. Both wings with the ai'ea beyond the postmedial line 

 strongly suffused with grey and with prominent dark striae, hind 

 wing with the white line diffused on outer side into a broad white 

 baud with dark striae on it. 



Jlab. Punjab, Masuri (Hiitton), 2 2 ^ Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 S , 

 4 $ ; SiKHiM, 7 $ ; Bhutan ; Assam, Khtiais ( Watson), 1 S , 

 8ilhet, 2 J, 3 5, type exterior, Cachar (Grant), 1 J , 2 ^, 

 Dibrugrah {Ward), 1 (S , 3 $ ; Bombay, Khandalla ; Madras, 

 Nilgiris {Ham2')son), 2 c? , 3 $ , Shevaroys, 1 $ ; Burma, Moulmein 

 (Clerk), 1 2 5 Hsipaw (Watson), 1 c? , Touughoo, 1 $ , Tenasserim, 

 Thoungeen Valley (Bingham), 1 5 ; Andamans, 1 c? type truncatu. 

 Exp. 8ti-104 miliim. 



7400. Nyctipao orion, n. sp. (Plate CCIV. fig. 8.) 



§ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown. Tore wing 

 fuscous brown, the basal area with a faint purplish grey gloss, tho 

 terminal area grey-brown with numerous faint dark striae; an 

 indistinct waved dark antemedial line ; a grey-brown inverted 

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

 and grey-brown and with some silvery blue at its extremity, the 

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

 waved to vein 6, excurved and minutely waved beyond lower 

 extremity of the discoidal mark and angled inwards below it on 

 vein 2, then waved to inner margin ; a pale postmedial line defined 

 on inner side by a black-brown shade, angled outwards just above 

 vein 6 and excurved below veins 4 and 2 ; a black-brown patch on 

 costal area towards apex ; a subterminal series of white and black- 

 brown lunulate marks, incurved below vein 6 and excurved below 

 veins 4 and 2. Hind wing fuscous brown, the terminal half grey- 

 brown with numerous faint dark striae ; a minutely waved blackish 

 antemedial line ; a pale medial line with black-brown shade beforo 

 it, excurved below costa ; a pale lunulate subterminal line defined 

 on outer side by blackish, excurved below costa and angled out- 

 wards at vein 2. Underside of both wings fuscous brown; fore 

 wing with postmedial series of eight white spots, the spot belcw 

 vein 7 larger and displaced outwards, the spot below vein 4 slightly 

 displaced outwards, a subterminal series of slight white and blackish 

 lunules; hind wing with postmedial series of small white spots in 

 the interspaces and subterminal series of slight white and blackish 

 lunules. 



