50 UEAPTERYGID^. 



The true U. picticaudata was described from a specimen in the collection of the late 

 Mr. W. "Wilson Saunders, received from Sarawak. It is described as being 22 lines (i. e. 

 46millim.) in expanse of wings, and is therefore 8 lines (or 17 millimetres) smaller in expanse 

 than the N.E. Indian species ; it is further described as being yellowish white, as having 

 deep-red fringes, subfalcate fore wings, two black-and-red spots at the base of the tail, and 

 the top of its head brown — all of which characters readily distinguish it from U. primularis , 

 and prove it to be much more nearly allied to U. multistrigaria. 



Urapteryx sciticaudaria. (Plate CXIII. fig. 5.) 

 Urapteryx sciticaudaria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Htt. xxv. p. 1480 (18G2). 



Pale brassy stramineous : the primaries crossed by two oblique, widely separated, and 

 slightly converging golden-brownish bands, between which is a narrower and shorter band 

 of the same colour ; a fourth transverse narrow baud or stripe crosses the disk ; it is, however, 

 formed, unlike the others, by a combination of fine hair-like grey lines; costa crossed 

 by slender blackish hair-like lines ; a slender blackish marginal line ; fringe golden brownish : 

 secondaries crossed by a single very oblique abbreviated central band; a few hair-like grey 

 lines form a second scarcely perceptible band across the centre of the disk ; a slender blackish 

 marginal line; fringe orange, with a narrow pale basal line; a pale grey band across the 

 base of the tail, on which are two oval spots, the anterior one reddish orange, the posterior 

 one black : abdomen and entire under surface, excepting the fringes of the wings, creamy 

 whitish. Expanse of wings GO millim. 



North India ? 



Urapteryx clara. (Plate CXIII. fig. 6.) 

 Drapteryx clara, Butler, Ann. cy Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 120. n. IS (1S80). 



Allied to U. podaliriata : wings white, sericeous, with the fringe red internally and grey 

 externally: primaries triangular, the costal border crossed by fine black striations ; the 

 central third of the wing enclosed between two slightly divergent golden-brownish stripes ; 

 a slender line of the same colour halfway between them at the end of the cell ; a few line 

 scattered testaceous striae upon the subapical area: secondaries with the submedian vein and 

 a stripe nearly parallel to it (running straight from the subcostal furca to the first median 

 branch, and thence curving inwards to the abdominal margin) golden brownish ; a few 

 scattered striations of the same colour upon the disk and a streak of it above the tail, limited 

 externally by a grey-and-black line and a dot of the same colours ; tail distinctly shorter and 

 wider than in U. podaliriata, and with red fringe. Wings below white, more or less cream- 

 coloured; markings obsolete. Expanse of wings 57 millim. 



North-east Himalayas [Lidderdale) . 



