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

 and pointed. 



NYCTALEMON ZAMPA. 



(Plate LXXV. Fig. I.) 



Nyctakmon zampa, Butler, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, 



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



vii. fig. i (1888). 

 Nyctakmon najabula, 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. 

 najabuld) Moore, which is a small form found in the Andaman 

 Islands. 



SUB-FAMILY III. CORONIDIIN^E. 



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 deflexed 

 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. Antennae long, sometimes shortly pectinated in the 

 males. 



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



