NISHADA. Ill 



Sect. I. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from angle of cell ; 3, 4 coincident. 



206. Nishada niveola, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) 



2 . Pure white, uniform throughout. 



Eab. S.W. IS'ew Gtjinea, Kapaur (Doherty), 1 $ type. Evj). 

 22 millim. 



Sect. IT. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from before angle of cell. 



A. (Petalopleura). Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 co- 

 incident. 



a. Wings black-brown, with orange patches syntomoides. 



b. Wings uniform ochreous imjjervia. 



207. Mshada syntomoides. 



Lithosia syntomoides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 106 (1862) ; 



Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 3no. 

 Eutane brevis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 126, pi. iii. f. 13 (1892). 



S • Black-brown ; frons, vertex of head, edges of tegulae and 

 patagia, and spots on thorax orange ; legs orange and brown ; 



abdomen with the anal tuft 

 mixed with orange, the ventral 

 surface with orange bands. 

 Fore wing with orange spot 

 at base of costa ; a streak 

 below antemedial part of 

 <30sta ; a streak below median 

 nervure from near base to 

 Fig. 52. — Nishada syntomoides, (^ . \. near termen narrowing at 



middle ; an elliptical spot in 

 end of cell ; slight streaks above veins 7 and 10 and a more pro- 

 minent one above 9 ; a bifid spot between veins 4 and 7 ; a streak 

 on middle of inner margin. Hind wing with the basal half orange ; 

 the inner and terminal areas black-brown. 



5 . Fore wing with subterrainal spot above vein 2 and sometimes 

 a point abo^e 3. Hind wing with orange fascise on costal area and 

 below cell, widely separated at extremity. 



Hah. StJMATEA ; Borneo, Sandakan (Pri/er), 1 <S , Sarawak ( Wal- 

 lace), 1 S type of both names in Mus. Oxon., Pulo Laut {Doltertij), 

 1 $ . Eii'p. 26 millim. 



208. Nishada impervia. (Plate XXI. fig. 4.) 



Lithosia impervia, Wlk. xxxi. 2S0 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 329. 

 Petalopleura phceocephala, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 ; Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 341. 



$. Headand thorax orange-yellow; antennae blackish ; abdomen 

 grey, yellow towards extremity ; pectus and legs tinged with fuscous. 

 Fore wing orange-yellow ; the termen on underside very slightly 

 tinged with fuscous. Hind wing pale yellow. 



