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KOCTUIDiE, 



Fig. 45. — Nyctipao orcina, (^ . 



h. Foro win^ of male clothed with velvety androconia on iipperside to post- 

 medial line except at costa ; hind wing clothed with velvety androconia 

 to the postniedial line. 



7410. Nyctipao albicincta. 



Erchus alUcinctus, Koll. Hligel's Kaschrair, iv. p. 474, pi. 22 (1844) ; 



Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 461. 

 Erehus rivularis, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 57, pi. 28, f. 3 (1848). 



cJ . Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown. Fore wing 

 clothed with rough dark brown androconia to the postmedial line 

 except the costa and discoidal stigma, the terminal area blue-black ; 

 the discoidal stigma whorl-shaped, its centre with large black 

 lunule on outer side and brown-red on inner side with silvery blue 

 irroration and two points on it and defined on inner side by black, 

 the outer part of the whorl grey-green with a slight curved dark 

 line on it; postmedial line white, arising belovv costa, obliijue to 

 below vein 6 where it is slightly angled, angled outwards to near 

 termen below vein 4, then incurved and ending at vein 1 ; veins 4 

 to 1 often slightly streaked with white on terminal area ; the 

 termen and cilia white. Hind wing clothed with rough dark-brown 

 androconia to the postmedial line, the terminal area blue-black ; 

 postmedial line white, strong, oblique towards costa and angled 



