﻿1306 CATALOGUE OF 



6. Nyctipao glaucopis. 



Foem. Obscure ferry gineo-fiisca^ pnrpurascente tincta ; alee vix 

 denticulatcB, lineis transversis. obscuriorihus undulatis valde 

 indistinctis, fascia exteriore cervina iiidislincta et incompleta, 

 fascia sublus maculari alba ; anticce ocello maximo cervino^ 

 piipilla nigra cyaneo micante ; posticce maculis duabus anticis 

 subapicalibus albis. 



Female, Dark ferruo^inous-bvown, with a purplish tinge. Wings 

 hardly denticulated, wilh the transverse darker lines undulating, 

 very indistinct; an exterior indistinct and incomplete fawn-coloured 

 band, corresponding to a macular white band beneath. Fore wings 

 with a very large fawn-coloared ocellus ; its disk black, partly deep 

 blue in some aspects; border black, open in front and behind. 

 Hind wings with two large w^hite spots in front near the tip. 

 Length of the body 15 lines; of the wings 42 lines. 



a. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



7. Nyctipao exteeior. 



Foera. Ferrugineo-fusca ; alee denticulatce, lineis interioribus 

 transversis undulatis nigricantibus distinctis, fascia exteriore 

 informi alba subtus maculari^ fascia submarginali nigricante 

 indistincta incompleta, lituris subtus submarginalibus nigris 

 intus albido marginatis ; anticce ocello maximo cervino^pu- 

 pilla nigra cyaneo micante ; postica fascia exteriore diffusa 

 duplicata. 



Female. Ferruginous-brown. Wings denticulated, with dis- 

 tinct interior transverse undulating blackish lines, and with an 

 exterior very irregular white band, which is diffuse and interlined 

 or double in the hind wings, and is macular beneath; submarginal 

 band blackish, indistinct, incomplete. Fore wings with the ocellus 

 much like that of N, glaucopis^ from which this species may be dis- 

 tinguished by the baud beneath, in which none of the spots are 

 lunate or sublunate, as are most of those of iV. glaucopis^ and the 

 former has also beneath a suhmarginal row ol black marks bordered 

 with whitish on the inner side. Length of the body 14 lines ; of the 

 wings 40 lines, 

 a, h. Silhet. Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



