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7418. Nyctipao leucotsenia. (Plate CCVII. figs. 7 c? , 8 ? .) 



NoctiM crepuscularis, Clerck, Icones, pi. 53 ; Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. p. 99, 



pi. 160. 1". A (nee Linn.). 

 Nyctipao leticotfenia, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 184 (1852). 

 JSyctlpao obscura, Eeth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 250 (1906). 



$ . Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown with a slight 

 purplish-grey gloss ; pectus and ventral surface of abdomen greyer. 

 Fore wing fuscous brown with a purplish-grey gloss ; an indistinct 

 dark antemedial line, angled outwards below costa and excurved iu 

 submediau interspace ; an inverted comma-shaped discoidal mark 

 with bilobate head, defined by black and whitish and its head by 

 silvery blue, some rufous and whitish in centre ; medial line black, 

 defined on outer side by white, arising from costa, excurved round 

 the discoidal mark and angled inwards below it, then fuscous de- 

 fined by grey and sinuous to inner margin ; an oblique pure white 

 postmedial band with dentate outer edge, angled outwards below 

 vein 4 ; a subterminal triangular white spot with indented outer 

 edge below the costa, followed by an interrupted waved white line, 

 oblique to below vein 5 and bent outwards between veins 4 and 3, 

 the area beyond it rather greyer. Hiud wing fuscous brown with 

 a slight purplish-grey gloss ; a dark sinuous antemedial line ; a 

 pure white postmedial band with dentate outer edge ; an oblique 

 wedge-shaped subterminal white spot below the costa followed by 

 an interrupted waved white line defined on outer side by black, 

 oblique to below vein 5 and bent outwards between veins 4 and 3, 

 the area beyond it rather greyer. Underside of both wings with 

 the basal half greyer ; fore wing with the postmedial band reduced 

 to spots ; both wings with irregular subterminal series of white 

 spots. 



(S . Dark reddish brown ; fore wing with the area beyond the 

 medial line with ochreous mixed except the postmedial area from 

 costa to vein 5, the medial line oblique and defined on outer side 

 by ochreous white below vein 2, thoAvhite postmedial band replaced 

 by an indistinct ochreous-white line arising from the medial line 

 below costa and excurved to vein 5, then oblique ; hind wing with 

 ochreous mixed, the postmedial band replaced by a dark minutely 

 dentate line defined on outer side by a faint greyish-brown band 

 with waved outer edge ; underside of both wings with the ))Ost- 

 medial white band absent; fore wing dark reddish brown with a 

 faint ochreous tinge beyond the medial line ; hind wing ochreous 

 tinged with red-brown, the costal and terminal areas sutfused with 

 red -brown. 



Ab. 1. d. Wings darker, with hardly a trace of the ochreous 

 tones. 



Ab. 2. ohscura $ . Both wings with the white band suffused with 

 fuscous brown and very indistinct. 



JIah. ?Java; Amboi.na (j"/y//^), 1 $; Batchian (Z^J/YiWy), S,2 



