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DEILEMERA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
confluens. 
ludekingi. 
macklotti. 
varians. 
sangira. 
inconstans. 
separata. 
avitia. 
aegrota. 
warmasina. 
a less densely netted forewing, and the dark veins in the posterior disc are absent. From Ceram. The abdomen 
of this species is always unspotted above. — ab. confluens form. nov. is an accidental aberration from Amboina, 
in which the margin of the forewing exhibits 5 (instead of the usual 3) white spots. 
N. ludekingi Voll. (30 d). At first sight not unlike guttulosa, but recognizable by the black zigzag- 
band through the middle of the forewing and by the white colour radiating in long teeth in the black margin 
of the hindwing. Disc of the hindwing white. Round the cell-end some irregular, small black spots. Sumatra. 
N. macklotti Voll. (30 e, f, misprinted in macldotsi), is presumably only a form of guttulosa, which, 
however, is much more brightly coloured with a conspicuously orange-yellow head and collar and with jet- 
black marking of the wings. The disc of the forewing may be almost unspotted greenish-white or also traversed 
by black bands, as in the figured From Celebes. 
N. varians Wkr. ( = moolaica Moore) (30 d) is one of the largest species, white, netted dark on the 
forewing. The hindwing with some irregular, large marginal spots. The species is unmistakable and varies 
so much in the spotting that scarcely two entirely similar specimens can be collected in the same district. It 
is distributed across the whole of India and Indo-China, but it prefers more the alpine districts than the open 
plains. Common in Sikkim and along the long ranges of the Himalaya towards east, to the south as far as the 
Malayan peninsula. 
N. sangira Sivinh. (= distincta Swinh., nec distinctum Wkr.) (30 d, as distincta) resembles a small 
varians, but it has a black-banded abdomen and a dark, though interrupted border of the hindwing. Sangir. 
N. inconstans Btlr. (30 d), probably only a more faintly marked form of varians and, as the name 
says, no less variable, inconstans almost invariably shows a white disc of the hindwing. On the forewing an 
oblique band formed of spots is mostly easily distinguishable from behind the middle of the costa to in front 
of the anal angle, but this band is often split into two or more parts. It seems to represent the preceding in 
the far east, and occurs particularly in Formosa, in South East China and in the neighbouring islands. 
N. separata Wkr. (30 c). This Australian form which is not rare in Queensland and extends to the 
south as far as New South Wales, is recognizable by the one-coloured greyish-brown forewing exhibiting beside 
some, now and then almost extinct, small white spots before the apex and the middle of the margin only yet 
an irregular oblique band from which sometimes the posterior end seems to be cut off as an isolated spot. 
The hindwing is purely white, with an irregular dark margin. Before the. middle of the distal margin there 
is always a small white spot which in northern specimens is merged with the discal white. — avitta ab. nov. 
(30 c). I denominate specimens in which the band of the forewing is extinct or only indicated as a minute 
costal spot. 
N. aegrota Sivinh., described from New South Wales, has the abdomen curled brown and greyish- 
yellowish. Forewing greyish-brown, with a white transverse band above the middle, bending a little proximallv 
above and being broken at the 1st median vein; beside it a large spot; 2 antemarginal white spots, the sub- 
apical one of which is larger, the second situate well-nigh before the middle of the margin. Hindwing with 
a brown marginal band exhibiting a strangulation before the middle of the margin and enclosing a bone-coloured 
spot before the apex and near the middle of the margin. 
Beside aegrota two more Nyctemerinae are mentioned from North Australia, neither of which is before 
me: mackieana Luc. and drucei Sivinh. Presumably only the types are known. They may be collateral forms 
of species known long ago. There are no figures existing, nor are any museums known to me possessing them. 
Both have been described to originate from Queensland, drucei is said to be the only species in the subfamily, 
in which the discal band of the forewing is bent inwards. 
N. warmasina B.-Bak. Unknown to me; from Arfak; it has the base of the forewing marked black 
and white, and 5 white oval spots behind the cell between the veins. Abdomen curled yellow. 
4. Genus: Deilemera Hbn. 
As members of this genus I regard the few forms distinguished by a conspicuous shape of the wings, 
very long antennae, strong legs and a posteriorly very stout abdomen. The veins of the wings differ in both 
sexes, which is partly due to the SS exhibiting a very convex, sometimes lobately extended anal part 
of the hindwing. The abdomen itself is always orange-yellow and curled black in such a way that sometimes 
one colour, sometimes the other is predominant. 
