NYCTIPAO. 299 



in Coil. Druce ; Er. N. (jtjinea, 1 J , Ekeikei (Pratt), type t 

 § ohscura in Coll. Betliune-Baker, Mt. Kebea, Dinawa, Babooni, 

 Area \i. {Meek). Exp. i 10-120 millim. 



7419. Nyctipao gemmans. (Plate CCVII. figs. 4 J, 5 $ .) 



Nycti'pao gemmans, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 182 (1852), §; Hmpsn. Moths Incl. 



ii. p. 4(51. 

 Nyctipao ophrisiiff^naris, Hm-psn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 305, c?; ^^• 



Moths Iiid. iv. p. 631. 



c? • Head, thorax, and abdomen fuscous brown. Fore wing 

 fuscous brown, the terminal area with numerous slight ochreous 

 strife; a curved dark antemedial line; an inverted comma-shaped 

 discoidal mark with bilobate head, defined by black and its head by 

 silvery blue, with a black patch beyond it, its centre reddish brown 

 with a grey line on inner side of tail ; medial line black, arising 

 below the costa, excurved round the discoidal mark and angled 

 inwards below it on vein 2, then erect to inner margin, the ex- 

 curved part defined by reddish brown with a slight fuscous line on 

 it between veins 7 and 2 ; a curved dark postmedial line slightly 

 defined on outer side by ochreous and from eostu to vein 6 by an 

 ochreous-white band bidcntatc below ; an indistinct waved dark 

 subterminal line, defined on inner side by ochreous striae between 

 veins 7 and 4, slightly incurved above vein 4 and excurved below 

 it. Hind wing fuscous brown, the terminal area with numerous 

 slight ochreous strife; a rather diffused dark medial line; post- 

 medial line curved, blackish defined on inner side by ochreous; 

 a waved dark subterminal line defined on inner side by ochreous 

 marks excurved below the costa and between veins 4 and ',i. Under- 

 side of both wings fuscous brown ; fore wing with white postmedial 

 bar from below costa to vein 6, narrowing beloAv vein 7, and sub- 

 terminal series of white striee, reduced to points towards costa, in- 

 curved at discal fold and below vein 3 ; hind wing with subterminal 

 series of white spots and striae, excurved below costa and incurved 

 below vein 5. 



2 . Fore wing with the tail of the discoidal mark dentate on 

 outer side at vein 6, a white band beyond the postmedial line with 

 sinuous outer edge,, the ochreous marks on inner side of subterminal 

 line more complete except towards costa ; hind wing with white 

 band beyond the postmedial line with dentate outer edge, the pale 

 marks before the subterminal line ochreous. 



Ab. 1. 2 • Both wings with the band bej^ond the postmedial line 

 reduced to a creamy-white line, the pale marks before the sub- 

 terminal line absent. 



Hdb. Bhutak {Dud(/eon'), 1 c? type ojjhrisikimaris ; Assam 

 (Badgleif), 4 $ , Silhet (Stainsforth), 4 ? . Ea-p. 76-92 millim. 



