292 NOCTUIDiE. 



brown androcouia to near the postmedial line, the inner margin and 

 terminal area suffused with purple-blue ; two postmedial white 

 spots below costa with an indistinct slightly waved whitish line 

 from them to inner margin ; cilia brown. Underside of both wings 

 brown tinged with purple-blue ; fore wing with the white post- 

 medial line broken up into spots ; hind wing with postmedial series 

 of small white spots. 



2 . Hind wing purple-blue with the hair on basal area only 

 brown. 



Hah, Punjab, Simla {Read, Harford), 2 J , 2 5 , Kasauli, 3 S 

 type pj'^mosa, Dharmsala (i/ocHnr/), 2 5 ; Sikhim, Chentong {Tibet 

 Exp.), 1 $ ; Assam {Badgley), 1 S , Silhet, 1 $ type, Cherra Panji 

 {Bucldey), 1 $ . Exp. 86-110 millim. 



e. {M/ciipao.) Wings of male not clothed with Telrety 

 androconia. 



a. Wings with white or pale subapical mark. 



a\ Fore wing of female with the medial line oblique 

 and straight below vein 2. 

 a^. Hind wing of male without yellowish post- 

 medial band. 

 a". Hind wing of female without white post- 

 medial band crepuscnlaris. 



b^. Hind wing of female with white postmedial 

 band. 

 a*. Hind wing of male with dentate whitish 

 medial line. 

 a^. Fore wing of female with large wedge- 

 shaped white subapical spot clavifera. 



i". Fore wing of female with .small bar-shaped 



white subapical spot dentifascia. 



/>'. Hind wing of male with oblique diffused 



dark medial line variegata. 



h-. Hind wing of male with yellowish postmedial band bismarda. 

 P. Fore wing of female with the medial line erect 



and waved below vein 2 leucotania. 



b. Wings without white or pale subapical mark. 



a'. Wings with the inner edge of the postmedial band 



evenly curved gemmans. 



/)!. Wings with the inner edge of the postmedial band 

 sinuous. 



a?. Wings with the cilia white jaintiana. 



b^. Wings with the cilia not white superba. 



7413. Nyctipao crepuscularis. 



Noctiia crepuscularis, Linn. Syst. Nat. ed. xii. 1, 2, p. 811 (1767); Cram. 



Pap. Exot. ii. p. 98, pi. 159. f. A ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 148, pi. 165, 



ff. 1, 1 a; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 461. 

 Nyctipao ephesperis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 272 (1827). 

 ■ Nyctipao IcBtitia, Butl. 111. Het. B. M. iii. p. 26, pi. 47. f. 9 (1879). 



Head and thorax dark brown ; pectus and abdomen more ochreous 

 brown, the latter with dark dorsal band on basal segment and 

 whitish bands on three following segments. Fore wing dark 

 brown, the terminal area more or less suffused with grey ; a dark 



