XISHAD.\. B'v Dr. M. Drafdt. 
nireola. 
syniomoida 
impcrvia. 
marginalia. 
lulu. 
hrunnea. 
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flabritera. 
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with the costal. The exhibits a bare, ribbed membrane in the inner-marginal area, the proximal margin being 
hairy. The costal part of the hindwing forms an inverted, thickly scaled fold: 1st median fused with the 
3rd radial, 2nd radial absent. Subcostal and 1st radial likewise fused and bent downward. In the 9 the 1st 
median and 3rd radial,-as well as the subcostal and 1st radial rise on long footstalks. Of many species recently 
described only the types are known, which were not availabe for us for illustrative purposes. 
N. niveola Hmps. (Ill) is quite purely white. Kapaur in South West New Guinea. 
N. syntomoides 1 Vkr. (= brevis Swinh.) (14 d) has blackish-brown wings with orange-yellow spots. 
Sumatra. Borneo, Pulo Laut. 
N. impervia Wkr. (= phaeocephala Meyr.) (14 d) has one-coloured ochreous-yellow wings, the 
hindwings lighter. In the $ tire head and collar are black, in the $ orange. Ceram, New Guinea. 
N. tnarginalis Fide. (14 d) is easily recognizable by the broad, black marginal band of the forewing. 
The hindwing, except the yellow inner-marginal area, is diaphanous brownish-grey. Celebes. 
N. tula Sv'inh. (14 e) differs from marginalis by a narrower black border and unicolorously light 
yellow hindwings. Sula. 
N. brunnea Rothsch. Head and thorax orange; apices of shoulder-covers and abdomen purple-brown, 
anal tuft white; antennae brown. Forewing dark purple brown. Hindwing in the costal half grey, otherwise 
purple-brown. The $ has unicolorously sooty brownish-grey wings. Length of forewings: ^ 15, $ 17 mm. 
Kumusi River, British New Guinea. 
N. nodicornis Wkr. (= chilomorpha Snell.) (14e) has yellowish-brown forewings transversely watered 
with dark brown, and light yellow hindwings, the latter at the proximal margin with orange hair: in the q the 
head is blackish, in the $ yellow. Borneo, Java. 
N. fuscofascia Rothsch. $: antennae dark brown, head golden orange, thorax violettish-brown with 
three golden orange spots. Tegulae golden orange with a violettish-brown spot in the middle; abdomen greyish- 
brown. Forewing wood-coloured brown with a violet reflection, a broad post median band and a marginal band 
darker violettish-brown. Hindwing light buff wood-coloured brown. Length of forewings: 14 mm. Mount 
Goliath in New Guinea, March. 
N. louisiadensis Rothsch. quite brick-coloured buff, hindwings lighter. Forewing dusted with small 
violettish-brown scales, more densely so behind the middle, where they form a faded band; a ring-shaped brown 
stigma on the discocellular. Length of forewings: 13 mm. South eastern island of the Louisiads, in April. 
N. aurantiaca Rothsch. antennae orange; head, forehead orange, vertex chocolate-violet; thorax 
chocolate-violet, the borders of the tegulae orange; abdomen above chocolate-violet with an orange anal tuft, 
on the sides of the 2nd ring tufts of long orange-yellow hair reaching almost to the end of the abdomen. Fore- 
wing chocolate-violet, the basal two thirds of the costal area orange; hindwing orange with a chocolate-violet 
marginal band. Length of forewings: 19 mm. Tolitoli in North Celebes, November and December (discovered 
by Frtttistorfer.) 
N. rotundipennis Wkr. (14 e). Forewing orange-yellow, beneath towards the margin blackened. 
N. flavens Rothsch. Antennae redclish-yellow, body maize-coloured like the forewings, hindwings 
reddish-buff. Length of forewings: 17 mm. Java. 
N. testacea Rothsch. Antennae brown; body yellowish wood-coloured brown like the forewings, the 
hindwing diaphanous greyish recldish-yellow, at the proximal margin orange-haired. Length of forewings: 
18 mm. Padang Rengas, Malayan ,Peninsula. 
N. griseoflava Rothsch. Forehead sooty black, vertex and thorax greyish-reddish yellow, abdomen more 
orange-like. Forewing greyish-redclish yellow, hindwings reddish-yellow, at the proximal margin orange-haired. 
Length of forewings: 15 mm. Manila (Philippines). 
N. melanopa B.-Bak. Head sooty black, thorax chrome-yellow, abdomen lighter yellow; chest roughly 
haired. Leg's sooty brown. Forewing unicolorously chrome-yellow, hindwing lighter; the inverted costal fold 
is deep, covered with several layers of broad, spatulate scales. Expanse of wings: 28 mm. Dinawa, Aroa River, 
June and July. 
N. flabrifera Moore (14 e). Head blackish: thorax yellowish-brown, abdomen grey, at the end orange; • 
the 2nd segment in the q dark. Forewing brownish-yellow, in the basal half of the proximal margin with a 
purple-brownish reflection: hindwing light yellow. The 2 is more orange, the head orange. Calcutta, Nilgiris, 
Travancore, Ceylon. Tenasserim. Java. The larva is, according to Piepers, black on the dorsum, light grey. 
