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line slightly defined on outer side by white hut without the broad 

 yellowish white baud beyond it, a white postraedial baud with 

 irregularly dentate outer edge, arising below costa where it is 

 attenuated and slightly bent outwards and somewhat oblique below 

 vein 4 ; hind wing with white medial band with its outer edge 

 ])roduced to streaks on the veins and in the interspaces ; the under- 

 side fuscous brown, the basal half with a slight greyish tinge, the 

 white band reduced to spots on fore wing and on hind wing with 

 its outer edge dentate in the interspaces, the subterminal spot 

 between veins 4, 3 on each Aving nearer the termen. 



Ab. 1. 5 • Both wings with the subterminal white spot between 

 veins 4 and 3 oblique. 



Hah. Solomons, Guadalcanar (MeeJc), 2 d" , Alu ( Woodford), 1 cT , 

 1 2 fype, and type caliginea, Gizo Is. Exp. 88-124 miilim. 



7417. Nyctipao bismarcia, n. sp. (Plate CCVII. figs. 1 d" , 2 $ .) 



S . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown ; pectus iu front 

 and ventral surface of abdomen lufous. Fore wing dark brown ; 

 an indistinct diffused dark antemedial line, oblique below submediaii 

 fold ; an inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark with bilobate head, 

 defined by black and yellowish, and its head by silvery blue, its 

 centre mostly yellow tinged with rufous ; medial line black defined 

 on outer side by yellow, arising from costa and curved round and 

 below the discoidal mark, then indistinct, diffused, dark, and 

 oblique from vein 2 to inner margin ; an oblique yellow postmedial 

 baud with a waved outer edge, arising just below costa, narrowing 

 above and with its outer edge indented at discal fold ; a subterminal 

 triangular white spot with indented outer edge below costa, fol- 

 lowed by a series of slight yellowish or white lunulate spots, oblique 

 to discal fold near the postmedial band, then excurved ; the terminal 

 area rather greyer with numerous indistinct dark striae. Hind 

 wing dark brown ; an indistinct oblique dark antemedial line ; a 

 broad postmedial yellow band with dentate outer edge ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped subterminal white spot below costa, followed by a 

 series of lunulate yellow and black-brown marks, incurved to close 

 to the postmedial band between veins 6 and 4 and below vein 2. 

 Underside of botli wings with the subterminal spots white and well 

 developed; fore wing with the postmedial yellow band reduced to 

 spots, 



$ . Fore wing with the excurved part of medial line defined by 

 white ; the postmedial band and subterminal spots of both Avings 

 pure white. 



Hah. Neav Britain (il/«<7ic«(;), 1 c? type ; Neav Ikeland (iJrowre), 

 2 d , 1 ? . Ex_p. 112-120 miilim. 



