288 CATALOGUE OF DIURNAL LEPIDOPTERA. 



LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA 



a Eabricio cum B-hopaloceris commixta. 



Genus 1. URANIA, Fabricius, 

 Illiger's Mayaz. vi. p. 279 (1808). 



1. Urania Leilus. 



Papilio (E. A.) Leilus, Linnceus, " alls caudatis, concoloribus, ni- 

 gris, fascia strigisque viridibus nitentibus numerosis : habitat in 

 America." Clerck, Icones, pi. 27. fig. 1 (1864). 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 449. n. 31 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 12. n. 48 

 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 7. n. 54 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 21. 

 n. 63 b (1793). 



South America. B.M. 



The species of Urania are said to be nocturnal insects ; there is 

 one mutilated specimen of P. Leilus in the Banksian Collection in 

 the British Museum. 



2. Urania Orientalis. 



Papilio (E. A.) Ripheus (sic), Fabricius [P. Orientalis, Swainson], 

 " alis sexdentato- caudatis, nigris, viridi fasciatis ; posticis subtus 

 macula ani ferruginea nigro punctata : habitat in Coromandel." 

 P. Rhipheus, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 385. figs. A, B (1782). 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 6. n. 43 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 21. 

 n. 62 b (1793). 



Madagascar. (Obtained 1855) B.M. 



The P. Rhipheus of Drury (111. ii. pi. 23. figs. 1, 2), excepting in 

 the veining of its wings, which in the figure is very like that of 

 Urania, has all the appearance of a butterfly ; it may perhaps be a 

 Mascarene species mimicked by, or mimicking Cramer's P. Rhipheus : 

 both species are admirably figured by Swainson, Zool. 111. 2nd ser. 

 (1832-3). Fabricius described P. Rhipheus as a variety of P. Leilus. 



Genus 2. NYCTALJEMON, Dalman, 

 Vet. Acad. Handl. (1824). 



1. Nyctalaemon Orontes. 



Papilio (E. A.) Orontes, Linnceus, " alis caudatis, nigris, fasciis 

 duabus virescentibus, caudis albis distantibus : habitat in India." 

 Clerck, Icones, pi. 26. fig. 1 (1764). 



Fabrwius, Syst. Ent. p. 455. n. 50 (1775) ; Sp. Ins. p. 20. n. 80. 

 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 10. n. 91 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. p. 69. 

 n. 214 (1793). 



Not in the British-Museum collection (see Ent. Month. Mag. v. 

 April 1869). 



