524 PEOF. ,T. O. WESTWOOD OX THE URAXIID^. 



which did not, however, appear to me to be specifically distinct from C. 7'hipheus. Such 

 is also tlie opinion of M. Lucas, who states that all the transitional forms occur be- 

 tween U. rhipheus and U. crasus. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. [5] vi. pp. cxxvii, cxxviii. 



Genus 3. Alcidia, ^^'estw. 



(DetaUs, Plate LXXXV. figs. 17, 18.) 



Alcidis, Hubuer (Vcrz. 1816) ; Guen^c, Sp. Gen. ix. p. 13 (nee Alddes, Dahn. 1826, Gen. Curcul.). 



Nyctalemon (pars prior), Dalman, Walker, List B.M. Lep. Het. i. p. 7; Boisduval, Rev. Zool. 1874, 



p. 17. 



Sp. 1 (12). Alcidia oroxtes. 

 Papilio orontes, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 750; Clerek, Icon. pi. 26. f. 1 ; Cramer, Pap. E.\ot. i. pi. 83. 

 figs. A, B; Godart, Enc. M. ix. p. 710 [Urania o.) ; Hopffcr, Ncue Schm. Heft 2, tab. 11, 

 figs. 1, 2. 

 Alcidis orontiaria, Hiibner, Samml. exot. Schm., Lar., B. her. 3, f. 3, l. 



Uab. Amboina, Ceram, Gilolo, New Guinea, Cape Grafton, north-east coast of New 

 Holland. 



Sp. 2 (13). Alcidia liris. 



Alcidis liris, Fclder, Wiener ent. Monatschr. Bd. iv. p. 250 ; llcise d. Novara, Lep. pi. cxxi. fig. 2. 

 Hab. Batchian {Wallace). 



Sp. 3 (14). Alcidia arnus. 

 Alcidis arnus, Felder, Reise d. Novara, Lep. pi. cxxi. fig. 1 . 

 Hab. Insula Aru^ (Lorqttin). In Mus. Brit. &c. 



Sp. 4 (15). Alcidia cydnus. 

 Nyctalemon cydnus, Felder, in Wiener ent. Monatsch. iii. pi. 3. f. 1, p. 179. 



Var. AVith band of hind wings very broad, extending nearly to the anal angle (Aru). 

 An y. metaurus, Hopff". ? 



Hab. Dorey, New Guinea (Mus. Brit.); Polynesia'? (Felder). 



Sp. 5 (16). Alcidia zodaic.\. 

 Nyctalemon zodaica, Butler, in Entom. M. Mag. vol. v. p. 273. 



"^2. Alse supra nigrse, ad basin virescentes, fascia media commuui lata aureo-viridi ; 

 anticse fascia altera lineolari subapicali, pallidiore striolisque costalibus ad basin aureo- 

 albidis ; posticce cauda cajruleo-alba, ciliis albis ; macula squamisque submarginalibus 

 analibus, corpus virescens abdomine pallidiori. Alge subtus pallide virescentes, fasciis 

 fere velut in K. orontiaria, Hiibner {orontes, Linn.), maculis autcm posticis subapica 

 libus in margine subrotundatis viridibus ; corpus thorace albido, abdomine aurantiaco, 

 cirris maris perlongis ochreis. Expans. alar. una. 4, lin. 7." 



