NYCTEMERA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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N. apensis Semp. (29 f) has, like distincta, the oblique band above extinct and traversed by the apensis . 
blackish-brown veins. The hindwing, however, has no regular marginal band, but its apical part is black, 
proximally smoothly cut off. From Mount Apo, at an altitude of 2900 ft., in the Philippines. I figure the type 
from the Senckenberg Museum at Francfort on the Main (Coll. Semper). 
N. nesites nom. nov. (— sumatrensis Heyl. nec Pag.) (29 f) is in the figure denoted yet by Heylaert’s nesites . 
name: sumatrensis. Forewing with an oblong-oval oblique band; in the hindwing only in the apical part a 
black band terminating in the middle of the margin or continued in 4 or 5 marginal dots. Known to me only 
from Sumatra. 
N. kinabalina Snell. (29 e). Forewing jet-black with a white oblique band, hindwing with a chain kinabalina . 
of oval marginal spots not reaching the anal angle. North Borneo. 
N. herklotsi Voll. (29 e). The band of the forewing, which is here on a jet-black ground, is on both herldotsi . 
borders very much notched; the hindwing is of a peculiar shape with a very long costal margin and almost 
rectangular apex. The fringes of the hindwing are of a bright white. -— The insect figured by Pagekstecher 
as herlclotsi has nothing to do with haulus Bsd., since the shape of the wings is quite different; it might rather 
be inserted in the very variable species quadriguttatum. Only known from Java. 
N. biserrata spec. nov. (29 f). Bod}^ quite golden yellow, thorax spotted black, abdomen broadly banded biserrata . 
black. Hindwing purely snow-white, with jet-black markings. The basal part of the forewing is white, at the 
costal margin and a stripe above the proximal margin black. The discal oblique band is distally regularly den- 
tated. The margin of the hindwing moderately broad black, its inner border regularly dentated. The marking 
reminds us of tripunctaria, but the body is quite different. According to a $ of the Coll. Bang-Haas from Sumatra. 
N. clathrata Voll. (29 f) is a small species from Ceram. Forewing dull blackish-grey with an oval, clathrata . 
dull white spot of the forewing, divided by the thick dark veins, the hindwing transparent whitish with a broad 
dark margin. Pagenstecher’s figure does not exhibit distinctly that the abdomen has thick dark bands and 
that the marginal band of the hindwing projects proximally in a tooth on the lower median vein. 
N. velans Wkr. (29 f). This very variable species from Celebes is characterized by a discal oblique velans . 
band composed of whitish-hyaline spots, and by the hindwing being broadly margined with brown and dia¬ 
phanous white in the disc. The resemblance with propria, stated by Pagenstecher, is merely superficial and 
is due to the exterudecl darkening of both species. According to Pagenstecher it only differs materially from 
propria by the wedge-shaped spot in the submedian fold of the forewing being very strongly developed in velans 
($), whereas in propria there are scarcely any or no traces at all of it. — subvelata Wkr. (29 g), judging from subvelata . 
the very incomplete description of Walker, are essentially specimens with more concise light spots only separated 
by the thickly blackish veins, which are sometimes almost white (Walker’s ,,var“). -—- infuscata Hpffr. has infuscata . 
a brown forewing, the light oblique band of which is broken up into 4 spots the veins intensely lined blackish. 
From the base to beyond the middle run whitish stripes, as in sontica, alternata etc. Easily discernible by the 
hindwing being preponderantly blackish-brown, only lighter towards the middle, where it is traversed by intensely 
black-hued veins. From Celebes. 
N. pratti B.-Bak. (30 a) resembles velans (9) and subvelata, but it is smaller; the forewing without praiti . 
the white basal streak below the cell and the hindwing with an almost hyaline white discal area in which the 
veins are not black. New Guinea. 
N. obtusa Wkr., probably allied to velans, is according to Walker distinguished from all the other obtusa . 
species of the genus by the wedge-shaped spot of the submedian space passing over into the oblique discal band 
of the forewing, or being only separated from it by the dark veins. Such an insect is very concisely figured 
by Pagenstecher (in ,,Kukexthal’s Voyage“) in the male (as „consobrina“). Swlnhoe, however, states that 
this insect is not identical with Walker’s obtusa, as is supposed by Pagekstecher in his ,,Monography of 
the N yctemera“ . I therefore figure here the species considered as obtusa by Pagenstecher, lying before me 
in both sexes from Celebes. The $ was captured by Friihstorfer in February at ,,Bua-Brang, at an altitude 
of 5000 ft.“ The under surface is almost exactly as above. As the species has not yet been denominated, I "call 
it angulata spec. nov. (29 g). Almost half of the hindwing is black. angulata . 
N. extendens Wkr. (29 g). Forewing white, broadly margined with a brownish black; through the extendens . 
middle of the wing extends a broad black stripe separating the white basal part from the discal band. Hindwing 
