. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NISHADA. Ill Sect. I. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident. 206. Nishada niveola, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) 2 . Pure white, uniform throughout. Eab. IS'ew Gtjinea, Kapaur (Doherty), 1 $ type. Evj). 22 millim. Sect. IT. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from before angle of cell. A. (Petalopleura). Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 co- incident. a. Wings black-brown, with orange patches syntomoides. b. Wings uniform ochreous imjjervia. 207. Mshada syntomoides. Lithosia synto
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. NISHADA. Ill Sect. I. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from angle of cell; 3, 4 coincident. 206. Nishada niveola, n. sp. (Plate XXI. fig. 3.) 2 . Pure white, uniform throughout. Eab. IS'ew Gtjinea, Kapaur (Doherty), 1 $ type. Evj). 22 millim. Sect. IT. Hind wing of female with vein 2 from before angle of cell. A. (Petalopleura). Hind wing of female with veins 3, 4 co- incident. a. Wings black-brown, with orange patches syntomoides. b. Wings uniform ochreous imjjervia. 207. Mshada syntomoides. Lithosia syntomoides, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 106 (1862); Kirbv, Cat. Het. p. 3no. Eutane brevis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 126, pi. iii. f. 13 (1892). S • Black-brown; frons, vertex of head, edges of tegulae and patagia, and spots on thorax orange ; legs orange and brown ; abdomen with the anal tuft mixed with orange, the ventral surface with orange bands. Fore wing with orange spot at base of costa; a streak below antemedial part of <30sta ; a streak below median nervure from near base to Fig. 52.—Nishada syntomoides, (^. \. near termen narrowing at middle; an elliptical spot in end of cell; slight streaks above veins 7 and 10 and a more pro- minent one above 9 ; a bifid spot between veins 4 and 7 ; a streak on middle of inner margin. Hind wing with the basal half orange ; the inner and terminal areas black-brown. 5 . Fore wing with subterrainal spot above vein 2 and sometimes a point abo^e 3. Hind wing with orange fascise on costal area and below cell, widely separated at extremity. Hah. StJMATEA ; Borneo, Sandakan (Pri/er), 1 <S , Sarawak ( Wal- lace), 1 S type of both names in Mus. Oxon., Pulo Laut {Doltertij), 1 $ . Eii'p. 26 millim. 208. Nishada impervia. (Plate XXI. fig. 4.) Lithosia impervia, Wlk. xxxi. 2S0 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 329. Petalopleura phceocephala, Mejr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1889, p. 459 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 341. $. Headand thorax orange-yel
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