1880 CATALOGUE OF 



alee anticce radiis octo basalibus albis, fascia exteriore obligua 

 abbreviata e strigis quinque albis latis ; posfica alba, fusco 

 marginatce. Foera.? — Antenna? vix pectinatce; abdomen canum, 

 fusco univittatum, segmentis albo marginatis ; alee anticce radiis 

 latioribus, fascia e strigis septem albis. 



Male. Brown. Head and thorax blackish brown. Head pale 

 ochraceous about the eyes. Palpi porrect, white towards the base, 

 extending a little beyond the head. Antenna? slightly pectinated. 

 Thorax with two white stripes; fore tesuilye ochraceous-bordered ; 

 hiud tegulae white-bordered. Pectus white, lute<»us and with three 

 black spots on each side. Abdomen pale ochraceous at the tip; each 

 segment with an interrupted white band and a white hind border; 

 under side white, with two rows of blackish brown spots on each 

 side. Legs white-striped. Fore wings with eig raja pro- 



ceeding from the base; first ray costal, th on the 



interior border; an exterior oblique abbreviated band, composed of 

 five broad streaks, of which the second is heart-shaped, and the fourth 

 is longer than the third and shorter than the filth. Hind wings with 

 a white disk, which is dentate opposite the exterior b> ngth 



of the body (3 lines ; of the wings 19 lines. 



Female? Antenna; very slightly pectinated. Abdomen above 

 hoary, with a brown stripe ; hind borders of the segments white. 

 Fore wings with broader rays, the band composed of seven Bti 

 of which the second is very slender and the third is lanceolate. 

 Length of the body 7 lines ; of the wings 22 lines. 



It connects N. tripunctaria with N. coleta, and may be distin- 

 guished from the former species by the intersected bands of the fore 

 wings. 



a, b. Philippine Isles. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



Nyctemeea btjunctella. 



Mas. Alba ; caput nigro bimaculatum ; palpi apice nigri ; an- 

 tenna? subpectinata? ; thorax nigro novem maeulatus ; al<t 

 antica fuscce, guttis tribus basalibus nigris, fascia lata inter- 

 rupta strigam nonnunquam interruptam emittente, striga basali 

 lata, lituris tribus aniicis, macula exteriore ovali, puncti] 

 bus postmediis maculisque duabus exterioribus albis ; postica 

 fascia marginali fusca lata maculas duas albas includente. 



