NYCTIPAO. 283 



terminal scries of white striae ; hind wing with three postmedial 

 white spots and three subterminal striae. 



JIab. Amboina (Forbes), 1 d"; Br. N. Guinea, Aroa R. ; Queens- 

 LVND, Cape York (McFarlane), 1 d type. Ex^^. 142 millim. 



7405. Nyctipao javanensis, n. sp. (Plate CCVI. fig. 2.) 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brown with a slight grey gloss. 

 Fore wing brown strongly suiFused with purple-grey ; a faint curved 

 blackish subbasal line from below eosta to submedian fold.; ante- 

 medial line black, sinuous; an oblique medial black bar from costa 

 and sinuous line from cell to inner margin ; a very large ocellus in, 

 beyond, and below the end of cell, defined by black, its inner part 

 with inverted comma-shaped fulvous mai'k, its outer with comma- 

 shaped black mark with some silvery blue at its head, and silvery- 

 blue streaks below veins 5 and 4 before its tail, its lower part defined 

 by a curved silvery-blue streak ; postmediul line black, arising 

 below costa, exourved rouad the ocellus, strongly angled inwards 

 below it, then sinuous, another line beyond it, expanding into a 

 patch between veins 8 and 6 and patches below veins 4, 2 and 1 ; 

 a subterminal series of black spots, excurved below costa, incurved 

 below vein 5, then slightly sinuous. Hind wing brown strongly 

 suffused with purple-grey except on basal area where the hair is 

 reddish brown ; a blackish medial line excurved beyond the cell ; a 

 rather diff'used black postmedial line, angled outwards below veins 

 7 and 4 ; a sinuous subterminal maculate band. Underside grey- 

 brown to middle, then purplish fuscous ; fore wing with postmedial 

 series of seven white spots, the sjmts above and below vein 5 and 

 below vein 3 displaced inwards, and a subterminal series of eight 

 white lunules ; hind wing with postmedial series of seven white 

 spots, the spots below veins 7 and 4 displaced outwards, and 

 subterminal series of seven lunules. 



Hab. Java, 1 5 type. Ex2i. 72 millim. 



7406. Nyctipao valceri. 



Painla walkeri, Biitl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 406 (1875); Saalni. Lep. 

 Madag. p. 450, f. 137. 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen dark reddish brown. Fore wing 

 brown with a slight purplish grey gloss ; a sinuous antemcdial line, 

 excurved at submedian fold ; an oblique black bar Jrom middle of 

 costa and waved line from vein 2 to inner margin ; a very large 

 ocellus in, beyond, and below end of cell, defined by black, with 

 inverted comma-shaped fulvous mark in inner part of centre and 

 comma-shaped black mark in outer part of centre, a curved silvery- 

 blue streak on its lower edge, some silvery-blue irroration on upper 

 part of the black mark, and short silvery-blue streaks below veins 5 

 and 4 before the tail of the black mark ; postmedial line arising 

 from a rather diffused fuscous mark below costa, then curved round 



