44 NYCTEMERID^:. 



■with black in front and behind ; abdomen with dorsal and lateral series of black spots. 

 Primaries below with the basal three fourths shot with purplish blue ; all the white veins and 

 streaks excepting the central discoidal and interno-median ones obsolete : secondaries with no 

 blackish patch at the end of the cell, otherwise as above : pectus white, covered with large 

 black spots : legs black, the femora with white fringe ; venter orange, with lateral series of 

 black spots. Expanse of wings 3 inches 2 lines. 



? . Primaries above greyish white, with white veins and indications of the markings of 

 the under surface : secondaries snow-white ; a large blackish patch at the end of the cell ; nine 

 submarginal ovoid black patches, shot with blue : body ochreous, tegulae with black spots nearly 

 as in the male but smaller ; thorax spotted with black behind ; abdomen pale, with a dorsal 

 series of black dots. Under surface snow-white : primaries with a costal streak, the front and 

 back of the cell, and a belt to the external angle purplish black ; external area greenish, 

 crossed by white veins : secondaries with the costal and external borders and a large patch at 

 the end of the cell blackish, shot with green : pectus spotted with black ; venter with lateral 

 series of black spots ; anus bright ochreous. Expanse of wings 3 inches. 



Silhet (Stainsforth) ; Darjiling (Lidderdale) ; Moulmein (Clerck). 



NYCTEMEBID^. 

 LEPTOSOMA, Boisd. 

 Leptosoma latistriga. (Plate LXXXVIII. fig. 1.) 

 Nyctemera latistriga, Walker, Cat. Lejp. Het. ii. p. 397. n. 15 (1854). 



Primaries dark chocolate-brown ; basal third streaked with white ; a broad elongated 

 subcuneiform white patch on the interno-median area, extending from the base to beyond the 

 middle of the wing ; a broad oblique discal white belt, slightly interrupted at the third median 

 branch, and abruptly expanded into an oval patch between the first and second branches : 

 secondaries white, with broad, internally-sinuated, external dark chocolate-brown border : body 

 pale yellow, darkest at the extremities ; the head and collar spotted, the thorax longitudinally 

 striped, and the abdomen transversely banded with dark brown ; antennae dark brown. 

 Wings below nearly as above, but the primaries not streaked at the base ; body bright ochre- 

 ous, with lateral series of black spots. Expanse of wings 1 inch 7 lines. 



Silhet (Stainsforth) ; Moulmein (Clerck) ; Ceylon (Templeton) . 



Z0N0S0MA, gen. nov. 



Allied to Leptosoma and Pitasila, but differing from the former in its broader wings ; 

 primaries with the costal vein only extending to the second third of the margin ; subcostal 

 branches considerably wider apart, the second branch slightly angulated ; upper radial emitted 



