Publ. IS. III. 1915. 
NYCTEMERA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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buted in the Moluccas, New Guinea, Fergusson Island, New Ireland etc. signata originates from the Key Islands; 
there is, however, too little material before me for being able to decide whether all the Key-specimens show 
an inclination towards the signata- form. 
N. quadriplaga Wkr. from New Guinea is described by Walker: $ black. Head at the eyes white, quadri- 
palpi beneath yellow. Thorax anteriorly with interrupted yellow stripes; abdomen blackish-brown. Wings plaga. 
with a large white spot, forewing long-extended with a slanting distal margin. 
N. kebeae B.-Bak. (30 c) is unmistakably a most peculiar form. Body black, abdomen and thorax Jcebeae. 
marked golden yellow, forcwing black with a broad white inner-marginal area and a white discal spot. Hindwing 
uniformly margined with black. We figure the type taken in September on the Dinawa at an altitude of 4000 ft. 
N. plagifera Wkr. (= adversata Shall.) (Vol. II, t. 18 h). This species has been dealt with in Vol. II, plagifera. 
p. 103. From inconstans it differs beside by the more scantily dark-spotted forewing by the large, often square 
spot of the hindwing. As I have stated in Yol. II, I found the insect flying together with Pieris canidia and 
by its flight strikingly similar to this species somewhat similar only in the colouring. 
N. cents Cr. (= interlecta Wkr.) (26 h). Mostly somewhat smaller than plagifera, which it otherwise cents. 
resembles; the spots in the middle of the forewing somewhat differently arranged and rounder; easy to recognize 
by the hindwing showing only spots at the margin, but none in the disc. The abdomen is besides golden yellow 
and curled black. I possess the species only from Sikkim; apparently local but not common. 
N. hyalina B.-Bak. from Mount Arfak is recognizable by the almost hyaline hindwing with a broad, hyalina. 
transparent-brownish marginal band. Unknown to me. 
N. semperi Sivinh. (= leucospilata Semp. nec Moore, semperii in tab.) (30 d) is an almost entirely semperi. 
snow-white form with but scanty brownish speckles, particularly at the costal and distal margins, representing 
one of those local albinisms so very frequently occurring in the Nyctemera. The species was at first known from 
the Philippines, but it also occurs in Celebes and Palawan. The abdomen is on top without the black median 
spots. •—- oroya Swinh. (30 d) is quite similar, but at the border of the wings and on the body there is a little oroya. 
more black marking. Discovered by Doherty in Sula-Besi. 
N. selecta Wkr. (30 e) approximates the form known as leucospilota Moore , but it is darker, on selecta. 
the forewing all the spots, except those from the base and those forming the dark transverse band, very much 
reduced. At the margin of the hindwing single small, white spots, selecta chiefly occurs in the Moluccas, parti¬ 
cularly in Ceram and Amboina. —disrupts Btlr., considered by Pagenstecher as a synonym of the preceding, disrupta. 
is probably regularly distinguished by the oblique band of the forewing being widely interrupted in the middle. 
Both are presumably forms of leucospilota Moore, in which there is instead of the oblique band a large, irregular leucospilota. 
oval and in the black basal part of the forewing a concise, white guttiform spot, the insect being on the whole 
more brightly coloured and more regularly marked; from the Andamans. — burica Holl. From Burn and Sula- burica. 
Mangoli. As the very long description of the author neither mentions any differences from other Nyctemera, 
nor tries any comparison or classification the insect is probably only to be ascertained by its origin. Body white, 
marked black, apparently without yellow colouring. Forewing black, with a large, oblong, white basal spot 
along the costa; near the base 2 small lentiform spots; across the middle of the hindwing extends a broad, very 
irregular band towards the distal angle, which it does not reach; above this band 2 subapical white spots at 
the costa and a large, suboval apical spot; in the middle of the distal margin a large, almost triangular spot; 
hindwing with a broad black margin in which there are some small white spots. — Not before me, but probably 
only a somewhat abundantly spotted selecta, as it occurs in numerous islands. The white spotting, particularly 
of the fore wing, varies so extraordinarily in selecta that it is difficult to ascertain two specimens that are entirely 
alike. Many diagnoses of forms established here have been made according to 1 or 2 single specimens; the habitats 
stated with them are merely accidental and they can therefore not even be regarded as constant local races; 
as for instance abraxoides Wkr., bipunctella Wkr ., bijunctella Wkr., variolosa Fldr., maculosa Fldr. In almost 
quite the same way N. inconstans Btlr. varies, but its collateral forms mostly have not the broad black margin 
of the hindwing; it is, however, white with some scanty nebulous spots. 
N. fractifascia Wil. Thorax white, marked dark. Abdomen in front dotted black, behind banded, fractifascia. 
Forewing with a white wedge from the base, enclosing a dark spot at the base; at the costa 2 spots (at the base 
and behind the first quarter); a postmedian hand of white spots; some more spots in the angle of the medians, 
above the proximal margin, before the proximal angle and apex. Hindwing with a rather broad, dark marginal 
band enclosing 2 white spots. 52 mm. Formosa. 
N. guttulosa Wkr. (30 e). Easy to discern from all the others by the more intense transparency of guliulosa. 
the light spots. The forewings are densely netted brown, the, light disc of the hind wing traversed by the intensely 
deep brown veins. -— abraxata Snell, probably scarcely differs from it. Celebes. — specularis Wkr. (30 e) has abraxata. 
X " 34 specularis. 
