28-; 



Fig. 44. — Nycivpao atavistis, (^ . 



B. Hind legs of male with the tibias and tarsi not fringed with long hair. 

 a. Wings of male entirely clothed with velvety androconia. 



*7409. Nyctipao orcina. 



Argiva orcina, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 115. f. 14 (1874). 



(S . Head, thorax, and abdomen deep chocolate-brown. Fore 

 wing deep cbocolate-brown with a faint purple gloss ; a large 

 whorl-shaped discoidal mark faintly defined by blackish, the inner 

 part of the centre with inverted comma-shaped mark with bilobate 

 bead with slight white spot on it; a conical yellow spot below costa 

 towards apex. Hind wing uniform deep chocolate-brown with a 

 faint purple gloss. Underside deep red-brown ; fore wing with the 

 spot below apex white, a faint waved dark subterminal line with 

 minute points on its costal half, incurved below vein 5 and at sub- 

 median fold ; hind wing with slight yellow striga below costa on a 

 faint waved subterminal line. 



Hab. Moluccas i^Lorquin), type f c? in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 

 116 millim. 



