16 SPOLIA ZEYLANICA. 



"NYCTALEMON PATR0CLU8" IN KANDY. 



By F. M. Mackwood. 



n^YCTALEMON PATROCLUS is a moth of large size belong- 

 -^^ ing to the family Uraniidae. The colour of the wings is 

 a varying shade of smoky brown or sepia, speckled with black 

 and with a straight whitish band across the middle. 



The species has been recorded from China, Sylhet, Burma, 

 Andamans, Malacca, Philippines, and Papuan sub-region.* 



Last December (1902) a specimen was caught in Lady Horton's 

 walk, Kandy, this being its first record for Ceylon. Since then 

 another example has been caught on the bank of the river near 

 Kandy, and was purchased by a tourist. 



The span of the wings (i.e., from tip to tip of the fore wings) is 

 5j; inches, and the distance from the tip of the fore wing to the tail 

 of the hind wing is also 5;| inches in the expanded condition. 



[It is somewhat remarkable that such a large species should have 

 escaped notice for so long, especially when we take into consider- 

 ation the number of collectors who have worked in the Kandy 

 District. Fresh records of its occurrence will be awaited with 

 interest, and it must be left to the future to decide whether it is 

 an accidental immigrant or a normal incoliue. — Ed.J 



* Sir G. F. Hampson, " Fauna of British India : Moths," Vol. III., 1895, pp. 



111-112, fig. 57. 



