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URANIID.E. 



wing brown, the pale band continued across it ; numerous black 

 striae on outer area; a broken blackish submarginal line; cilia and 

 end of the long tail white. Underside with the basal area of both 

 wings pale, the whole of both wings striated. 



Fig. 57. Nyctalemon patroclus, <3 . . 



The form docile = hector, from Burma, Malacca, and Borneo, has 

 the band pure white ; in goldei=zmacleayi, from New Guinea, 

 Timor, New Ireland, and New Britain, the band of the fore wing 

 is white and broad ; in typical patroclus, from New Ireland, it is 

 broad and suffused with brown ; in najabula=zampa, from Sylhet 

 and Andamaus, it is narrow and brownish. 



Larva white, with numerous very irregular black markings, 

 which coalesce on the thoracic 5th, 6th, and 10th somites to form 

 blotches ; a series of small dorsal setiferous tubercles. Head and 

 legs red-brown. 



Hab. China ; Sylhet ; Burma ; Andamans ; Malacca ; Philip- 

 pines ; Papuan subregiou. Exp., d 134-144, $ 140-170 millim. 



Genus URAPTEROIDES. 

 Urapteroides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 258 (1888). 



Type, U. astheniata, Guen. 



L'"nr/e. Central Africa ; Sikhim ; Ceylon; Malayan and Papuan 

 subregions. 



Palpi slight and porrect. Antennae of male thickened and 

 flattened, of female simple. Pore wing broad ; veins 3 and 4 

 Mulked ; 6 and 7 stalked ; 10 and 11 present. Hind wing with 

 an angled tail at vein 4 ; veins 3 and 4 stalked. 



