110 URANIIDA. 
smaller; a crimson spot at anal angle and two on outer margin 
are sometimes present. Underside with the crimson spots on 
costa of fore and hind wing and at anal angle generally present, 
and sometimes spots on outer margin of hind wing are present. 
In the form philenora the hind wing is quadrate ; in varunca it 
is produced. 
Hab, Sikhim; Assam. Lwp., g 116, 2 1384 millim. 
Family URANIIDZ. 
A family of large or moderate-sized moths of diurnal or semi- 
diurnal habits. Proboscis present ; palpi rather slender. Frenulum 
absent. Fore wing with vein 16 forked at base; 1¢ absent or 
minute; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked, or 7 from 
cell; 8 and 9 given off before end of cell. Hind wing with vein 
l¢ and usually 1a absent; 5 from middle of discocellulars, 8 free 
from the base and with a precostal spur. 
Larva with 5 pairs of prolegs; the head small; the somites 
tuberculated. 
Pupa with an external sheath for the proboscis extending beyond 
the wing-cases ; an acute deflexed terminal spine. 
Fig. 56.—Larva of Nyctalemon patroclus. }. 
(From Kihn, ‘ Iris,’ 1887, pl. 6, fig. 9.) 
Key to the Genera. 
A. Hind wing with the discocellulars almost 
straight and erect. 
a. Hind wing with two tails; fore wing with [igo Late 
veineal Orang all absent: a. weve lege oor 1. NycTALEMON, 
b. Hind wing with a short tail or angle at 
vein 4, the margin rarely rounded. 
a’, Fore wing with no areole. 
a’. The cell of both wings very short; [p. 112. 
veins 3, 4 of both wings stalked .. 2. URAPTEROIDEs, 
b?. The cell of normal length ; veins 3, 4 
of both wings from angles of cell. 
a®, Antenne of both sexes slender and 
CUITSTER Tiercduica caskets severe seats 3. STROPHIDIA, p. 113. 
