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part of centre with silvery-blue striae and irroration on inner side 

 of its head and silvery-blue streak below veins 5 and 4 before its 

 tail and slight oblique striga at end of tail ; postmedial line black, 

 arising below costa, excurved round the ocellus and strongly angled 

 inwards below it, then excurved in submedian interspace and above 

 inner margin, followed by another line with three maculate patches 



Fig. 43. — Nyctipao macrops, cj" , $ . f . 



from below costa to vein 6, excurved to vein 2, then sinuous ; a 

 subterminal series of rather lunulate black bars, excurved below 

 costa and incurved below vein 5, with a series of rather ill-defined 

 blackish patches before it. Hind wing brown with a slight purplish 

 gloss ; a slightly sinuous blackish medial line ; a waved postmedial 

 line ; a subterminal lunulate line with a series of maculate black 

 patches before it. Underside pale brown to beyond middle, the 

 terminal area fuscous brown except towards tornus ; fore wing 

 with postmedial series of eight white spots, displaced inwards above 

 and below vein 5 and below 3, and subterminal series of white 



