296 NOCIUIDJK. 



line and dentate medial and postmedial lines, the subterminal line 

 as above. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with more white on postmedial area; hind 

 wing with the costal half white to beyond middle ; the underside 

 white with the basal half of fore wing and base of hind wing 

 suffused with brown, also the terminal area of both wings. 



2 . Head, thorax, and wings black-brown ; both Avings with 

 prominent oblique white postmedial band with dentate outer edge ; 

 fore wing with the subterminal white spot below costa reduced to 

 a striga, hind wing with it narrow and oblique ; underside of both 

 wings brown with maculate white postmedial band and irregular 

 subterminal series of black and white lunules. 



Hah: Queensland {Elsey), 1 $ type, type t cJ variegata in Mus. 

 Oxon., Erisbaue {Tamer), 1 J , 1 $ • Exp. 98-120 millim. 



7416. Nyctipao vaviegata. (Plate CCVI. figs. 6 J , 7 $ .) 



Ni/ctipao varicgata, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 432 (1887), 6 • 

 liyctipao caliginea, Butl. A. M. N. H. (5) xix. p. 433 (1881), §. 



-• (S . Head and tegulae red-brown ; thorax red-brown mixed with 

 greyish ; palpi ochreous brown ; pectus ochreous ; legs grey-brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous dorsally suffused with brown except a band on 

 2nd segment. Fore wing grey suffused with dark red-brown ; a 

 curved slightly sinuous antemedial blackish line ; an inverted 

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

 and yellow and its head by silvery blue scales, some yelloAv in centres 

 of both head and tail ; postmedial line strong, black-brown defined 

 on outer side by a broad yellowish white band, whiter towards 

 costa, arising from costa just beyond the discoidal mark and ex- 

 curved round it, then angled inwards below it on vein 2 and oblique 

 to inner margin towards base, a brownish line beyond its excurved 

 part ; a darker brown patch on postmedial area from costa to vein 5, 

 spot between veins 4 and 3, and triangular patch on inner area ; a 

 conical white spot below costa towards apex ibllowed by a more or 

 less developed series of white lunulate spots, oblique to vein 5 and 

 bent outwards between veins 4 and 3, the spot above vein 4 some- 

 times elongate ; the terminal area with faint dark strise. Hind 

 wing greyish suffused with brown, the basal area ochreous white ; 

 an oblique blackish subbasal line ; an indistinct oblique medial line ; 

 a wedge-shaped white patch below apical part of costa and sub- 

 terminal series of black and white lunules, incurved between veins 

 6 and 4, and bent outwards between veins 4 and 3. Underside of 

 both wings ochreous white, the terminal areas suffused and striated 

 with brown ; fore wing with curved medial line, the subterminal 

 white spots well developed ; hind wing with small black discoidal 

 spot, oblique brown antemedial line, and the subterminal series of 

 white spots well developed. 



5 . Fuscous brown ; fore wing with the excurved part of medial 



