48 ARCTIUM. 



Fore wing with the costa dark at base ; the subcostal, median, and 

 submedian nervures outlined in black as far as the very irregular 

 medial band ; an irregular band on discocellulars sending streaks 

 along the veins to the marginal band, which extends from the 



Fig. 22. — Nyctemera plagifera, $ . \. 



costa to vein 3, and has a dentate inner edge and three or four 

 white marginal spots ; a black spot near outer angle. Hind wing 

 white, with an irregular black blotch at lower angle of cell and five 

 black submarginal spots. 



Hah. China and throughout India. Kvp. 58 millim. 



1267. Nyctemera cenis, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 147, fig. E ; C. $ S. 



no. 461. 

 Nyctemera interlecta, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 400 ; Butl. III. Het. v, 

 pi. 88,tig. 2; C. $ S. no. 473. 



Head black, the frons yellow, with a black spot at centre ; 

 thorax orange, spotted with black : abdomen orange, banded with 

 black above, two lateral paired series of black spots. Eore wing 

 white ; two black subbasal spots and a streak below vein 1 and 

 two below the median nervure ; a medial series of six irregularly 

 placed spots, the spot between veins 2 and 3 small ; a series of 

 longitudinal streaks on the margin often more or less conjoined 

 into a band. Hind wing white ; a spot at centre of costa, and a 

 marginal conjoined series interrupted at vein 5 and below vein 2. 



Hob. Himalayas from Simla to Sibsagar ; Khasis ; Nagas ; 

 Yunnan. Exp. 48 millim. 



1268. Nyctemera varians, Wlk. Cat. ii, p. 400 ; C. # S. no. 469. 

 Pitasila moolaica, Moore, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 847, pi. 53, fig. 10; 



C. fy S. no. 468. 



Head yellow ; thorax and abdomen yellowish white, spotted 

 with black ; tegulse with two black spots ; abdomen with dorsal 

 and ventral series of black spots and two paired lateral series. 

 Fore wing white ; two black spots near the base ; the black 

 markings extremely irregular and variable, forming very ill-defined 

 subbasal, antemedial,postmedial, submarginal, and marginal bands, 



