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are trifid, and as large as the hand, but the older ones oval 

 and pointed. 



NYCTA LEMON ZAMPA. 



{Plate LXXV. Fii^. \,) 



Nyctahmon zampa^ Butler, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 



V. p. 217 (1869); Preiss, Abbild. Nachtschmett, p. 6, pi. 



vii. fig. I (18SS). 

 Nyctahmon fiajabnla, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1877, 



p. 620. 

 This is a pale brown Moth, six inches or more in expanse, 

 with a narrow, greyish-white transverse stripe, and the tail 

 bordered with white. The under surface (which is figured) is 

 yellowish-grey, with the basal area reticulated with brown, and 

 the transverse stripe broader and whiter. It is a common 

 North Indian insect. Our figure is taken from the type of N. 

 najabula^ Moore, which is a small form found in the Andaman 

 Islands. 



SUB-FAMILY III. CORONIDIIN^. 



Egg. — Not described. 



Larva. — With sixteen legs ; head and pro-thorax small, body 

 with conical tubercles and curved spines. 



Pupa. — Enclosed in a loose cocoon at the base of a folded 

 leaf; the sheath for the proboscis continued beyond the wing- 

 cases, and the extremity of the body forming a short deflcxed 

 spine. 



Imago. — Of moderate size, with broad wings; hind-wings 

 with the discoidal cell completely closed, and with a broad 

 spatulate tail, traversed by the lowest discoidal nervule, and 

 the upper median nervule ; an internal nervure sometimes 

 present. Antenncc long, sometimes shortly pectinated in the 

 males. 



The two genera included in this Sub-family arc confined to 



