NYCTHUO. 295 



■a wedge-shaped white patch below costa before apex with iudeuted 

 outer edge, followed by the interrupted waved Avhife subterminal 

 line defined on outer side by black-brown, oblique to the postmedial 

 band below vein 5 and strongly bent outwards between veins 4 

 and 3 ; the terminal area slightly greyer with indistinct dark 

 strisB. Hind wing fuscous brown ; an indistinct dark antemedial 

 line excurved to subraedian fold, then oblique ; a pure white post- 

 medial band with dentate outer edge; subterminal line with narrow 

 oblique white bar below costa, the white defined on outer side by 

 black-brown, bent inwards to near postmedial band, waved and 

 defined on outer side by grey hair between veins 6 and 4 and from 

 vein 3 to inner margin. Underside of both wings with the basal 

 half greyish, the white postmedial band of fore wing broken up into 

 spots. 



Hab. HoNft KoN& {Bowrwg), 1 $ type; Philippines, Manila. 

 Exp. 118 millim. 



7415. Nyctipao dentifascia. (Plate CCVI. fig. 4 j , 5 $ .) 



Nyctipao deniifnscia, Wlk. xxxiii. 947 (1865). 



Nyctipao variegaia, Swinb. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. ii. p. 114 (1900) nee 

 Eutl. 1887. 



S . Head and thorax dark brown, the neck with ochreous ring ; 

 pectus ochreous ; abdomen dark brown with greyish band near base, 

 the ventral surface ochreous. Fore wing dark brown ; an indistinct 

 dark antemedial line defined on inner side by greyish, angled 

 outwards below costa and excurved below the cell; an inverted 

 comma-shaped discoidal mark with bilobate head, defined by black 

 and whitish and its head by silvery blue; medial line black with 

 diffused ochreous white band beyond it, excurved from costa round 

 the discoidal mark and angled inwards below it on vein 2, then 

 oblique to inner margin towards base ; traces of a dentate post- 

 medial line, oblique below vein 4, a black-brown patch beyond it 

 from costa to vein 6 ; a lunulate subterminal white spot below costa 

 with a small lunnle below it; the waved subterminal line with 

 slight white lunules on it defined by black-brown, strongly incurved 

 between veins 6 and 4 and bent outwards between veins 4 and 8. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the postmedial area ochreous browni except 

 towards cobta ; a diffused ochreous brown subbasal band followed 

 by the dark antemedial line defined on outer side by ochreous ; a 

 dentate grey medial line with some grey irrorafion beyond it ; an 

 oblique white subterminal spot below costa with small white spot 

 below it on the inner edge of the irregularly waved black sub- 

 terminal line slightly defined on inner side by ochreous, incurved 

 between veins 6 and 4 and bent outwards between veins 4 and 3. 

 Underside of both wings ochreous yellow, the terminal area brown 

 with numerous indistinct dark striae; fore wing with curved medial 

 line from costa to vein "2, indistinct dentate postmedial line and 

 series of white lunules representing the irregular subterminal line ; 

 hind wing with dark discoidal point, indistinct curved antemedial 



