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segments whitish; tip luteous beneath; under side with white 

 bands, excepting the sixth and seventh segments, which have 

 yellowish hind borders. Femora white beneath. Fore wings brown, 

 with a luteous point at the base, with a white streak proceeding from 

 the base, with an exterior oblique white band or transverse patch, 

 and with three white spots near the exterior border. Hind wings 

 white, with a broad brown border, which contains two white spots, 

 one of them subapical. Length of the body 8 lines ; of the wings 

 24 lines. 



Of the three individuals here described the Aru specimen 

 differs from the others in the markings of the fore wings. The first 

 streak is interrupted and abbreviated towards the base; the hind 

 streak does not extend to the base and forms an ansjle at its end, 

 which does not join the band ; the latter is nearly elliptical and is 

 abbreviated at each end. In the Ceram specimen the band is con- 

 nected with the hind streak and exteuds to the costa, near which it 

 is interrupted. In the Gilolo specimen the first streak is accom- 

 panied near its end by a little hinder streak; the hind streak is 

 attenuated towards its end, and the band is abbreviated at each 

 end. 



Gilolo. 



a, b. Aru. From Mr. Wallace's collection, 

 c. Ceram. From Mr. Wallace's collection. 



Nyctemera intercisa. 



Mas. Nigro-fusca ; caput luteum, vertice maculaque aniica nigro- 

 fuscis; palpi basi lutei ; antennae sub pectinatce ; thorax tegulis 

 scutelloque luteo late marginatis ; pectus luteum, maculis 

 nigro-fuscis ; abdomen vittis duabus lateralibus maculatis et 

 segmentorum marginibus luteis ; femora subtus lutea ; alee 

 alba, margine lato fusco maculas octo albas includente ; antica 

 basi lutea guttis duabus nigro-fuscis, vittis duabus fuscis, la 

 costali, 2a postica strigam albam marginalem includente, fascia 

 fusca valde incisa. 



Mole. Blackish brown. Head luteous ; vertex blackish 

 brown ; a transverse rhomboidal blackish brown spot iu front. Palpi 

 blackish brown, luteous towards the base; third joint elongate- 

 conical, about half the length of the second. Antennae sligbtiy 

 pectinated. Thorax with the four tegulee and the scutellura broadly 

 bordered with luteous. Pectus luteous, with blackish brown spots. 



