NYCTIPAO. 459 



Sect. I. (Patula). Male with the costal half of hind wing aborted 

 to form a fold turned over ou the upper surface and contain- 

 ing a large glandular patch of fiocculent hair ; vein 4 running 

 to the functional apex, 5 from centre of discocellulars, and 6 

 to the fold ; 7 and 8 very minute to near base of costa. 



2401. Nyctipao macrops, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii, hi, p. 225 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 164, fig. 5 ; C.% S. no. 2533. 

 Noctua bubo, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 209. 

 Patula boopis, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 178 ; C. 8f 8. no. 2532. 

 Patula walkeri, Butt. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi, 1875, p. 406. 



Fuscous brown, with a slight purplish tinge. Fore wing with 

 short subbasal and waved antemedial and medial black lines ; a 

 very large fulvous ocellus beyond end of cell, with black outline and 

 black comma-shaped pupil with blue streaks and specks on it ; two 

 irregularly waved postmedial lines excurved round the ocellus and 

 bent inwards below it, the outer one expanding into a patch at 

 costa ; two sinuous series of black submarginal spots, the inner 

 series indistinct and obsolete towards costa. Hind wing with 

 medial black line excurved round cell; a postmedial series of 

 lunules with two sinuous series of spots beyond them, the inner 

 series least distinct. Underside with irregular postmedial series of 

 white spots and regular submarginal series of lunules to each wing. 



Walkeri, from Africa, has the black patch on costa of fore wing 

 larger, the white spots on underside smaller. 



$ with tufts of orange hair in anal segment of abdomen round 

 claspers. 



Hab. Throughout Africa, Madagascar, India, Ceylon, and Burma. 

 Exp. 134-160 millim. 



Sect. II. {Argiva). Male with vein 3 running to the functional 

 apex of bind wing; the costal fold obsolete, the glandular 

 patch small. 



A. Male with veins 4 to 8 of hind wing moderately developed 

 in the aborted costal area. 



2402. Nyctipao hieroglyphica, Drury, III. Exot. Ins. ii, p. 3, pi. ii, 



fig. 1; C.&S. no. 2535. 

 Phalaena mygdonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 174, F. 

 Phalaena harmonia, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii, pi. 174, E. 

 Noctua ulula, Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii, p. 211, no. 9. 



3 . Rich black-brown. Fore wing with a whorl-shaped black 

 mark beyond end of cell, bilobed and expanding at head, where it 

 is outlined with blue ; an oblique yellow bar from costa near apex, 

 in one specimen reaching outer margin. 



2 . Brown, with black striae ; fore wing with the oblique bar 

 white ; both wings with traces of postmedial band of whitish marks 

 and white spot on fore wing above vein 3. 



