802 NOCTCriD^. 



five • Mnd wing without the spots at and beyond end of cell, the 

 spots on cilia reduced to five; the cilia tinged with rufous at 

 tornus. 



Hab. Java, Buitenzorg, Gedeh, Preanger, Rembang, Tonban, 

 Tjibodas. Exp. 26-30 millim. This species is unknown to me, 



5960 h. Metsemene atrigutta. 



Lyclene atrigutfa, Wlk. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 116 (1862) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. p. 367. 

 Mmene niasica, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxviii. p. 25, pi. 1. f. 7 (1885) ; 



Krby, Cat. Lep. Het. p. 367. 

 Siccia maculata, Leech, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 605, pi. 30. f. 16 (1889); Kirby, 



Cat. Lep. Het. p. 368. 



Head and thorax white tinged with pale rufous ; pectus, legs, 

 and abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing white ; a pale rufous patch 

 at base of inner area, the median area pale rufous interrupted by 

 white in submedian fold, the postmedial area with patches of pale 

 rufous below costa, at middle and on inner area, the terminal area 

 with a pale rufous patch at discal fold ; a subbasal black point on 

 costa ; an antemedial point on costa and small spot in submedian 



Fig. 214. — Metamenc atrigutta, (^ ■ |. 



fold ; postmedial points on costa and inner margin and round spots 

 in discal and submedian folds forming a curved series ; the apical 

 part of costa with rufous points ; some black points on termen 

 below apex and black spots on termen and cilia at apex, discal fold 

 and vein 2. Hind wing pale rufous. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the ground-colour entirely white. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the white area reduced to bands dilated 

 into patches round the black spots and connected in discal and 

 submedian fold, the points on costa towards apex black. 



Ab. 3. Fore wing with the white markings reduced to slight 

 annuli round the spots and a fine dentate subterminal line angled 

 inwards at discal and submedian folds and outward at vein 4. 



Ab. 4. maculata. Fore wing with hardly a trace of the pale 

 annuli, the ante- and postmedial black spots larger. 



Hah. Japan, Satsuma {Leecli\ 1 $ type maculata ; Nicobaes, 

 {Boqers), 6 6 , ^ $ ; Straits Settlements, Selangor, Semangho 

 (Mobinson), 1 $ ; Singapoee, (Ridley), 2 c? > 3 $ ; J3oeneo, 

 Sarawak ( Wallace, Doherty, Shelf ord), 1 d , 2 $ ; Pulo Latjt 

 (Duherty), 2 c? , 5 $ ; Nias I.; Java, Arjuno (Doherty), 2 cJ ; 

 New Gfinea, Milne Bay (Meek), 1 5 , Exp. 18-22 millim. 



