■ NYCTEMEBID^. 47 



Family NYCTEMERID^. 



Wings somewhat short, broad; no discoidal veinlet; one submedian vein in 

 forewing. Antennas pectinated. Flight diurnal. 



Larva elongated, cylindrical, clothed with slight tufts of fine hair, the anterior 

 pair fasciculate. Pupa in a light silken cocoon. 



Genus NYCTEMERA. 



Nyctemera, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 178 (1818-25). 



Oiyhanos (part), Hiibner, l. C. 306 (182a-27); Herr. Schseffer, Aussereurop. Schmett. p. 14 (1858). 



Leptosoma, Boisduval. 



Forewing short, somewhat narrow ; exterior margin slightly oblique ; cell 

 extending about two-thirds the wing ; first subcostal emitted at one-sixth before end 

 of the cell; second at one-twelfth, bifid; fourth trifid, ascending to third and 

 anastomosed to it to within half its length, fifth from immediately below its juncture 

 with the third, and the sixth (or radial) from near its base beyond end of the cell ; 

 discocellular bent inward ; two upper medians from angles at end of the cell, second 

 at one-eighth, and first (or lower) at three-eighths before end of the cell ; submedian 

 curving downward from the base : hindwing short, broad, exterior margin convex ; 

 cell extending two-thirds the wing ; subcostal joined to costal to one-fourth from its 

 base ; two subcostal branches on a f oot=-stalk one-fourth beyond end of the cell ; dis- 

 cocellular bent inward before the middle ; two upjDer medians from angles at end of 

 the cell, second at one-eighth and lower at three-eighths before end of the cell ; 

 submedian and an internal vein straight. Body short ; palpi porrect, first joint laxly 

 pilose, second and third squamose, slender, second joint extending half beyond the 

 head, third joint nearly as long as second j legs long, slender, smooth; antennae 

 bipectinated. (N. lacticinia.) 



NYCTEMERA tACtlCINIA (Plate 99, Fig. 1, 1«, larva). 

 Phal. Geom. Lacticinia, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 128, fig. E (1779). 



Nyctemera Lacticinia^ Habner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 178; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B-. M. ii. p. 395 ; 

 Moore, Catal. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. it p. 331, pi. 14, fig. 10, 10a. 



Male and female : forewing dark smoky-brown, with an oblique discal yellowish- 

 white macular band extending from costa to near the posterior angle, and a short 

 basal streak on posterior margin : hindwing white, with a bfoad brown marginal 

 band. Head and thorax ochreous-grey, black spotted ; abdomen grey with narrow 

 black dorsal segmental bands and lateral spots, tip ochreous ; palpi ochreous, black 

 tipped; antennee black, shaft brown; legs browii. above, white beneath. 



Expanse, S 1^, ? if inch. 



