U RAPTEE YX . — TETE ACIS . 
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URAPTERYGIDtE. 
URAPTERYX, Leach. 
TJrapteryx excellens. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 13.) 
Creamy white : primaries sliglitly tinted with sulphur-yellow ; costal margin narrowly 
black ; an oblique dark grey band^ commencing just beyond the basal fourth of costa, and 
running to about the external fourth of inner margin, continued as a slender blackish line 
almost to external angle, where it unites with a second similar band from third fifth of costa ; 
between these two bands is a dark grey discocellular stripe ; a longitudinal dark grey stripe 
along the subraedian vein from the base to the first oblique band ; fringe of inner margin 
grey, tipped with white ; costal area towards the base crossed by short dark grey lines, two 
of which are also present between the two grey bands ; disc transversely striated with blackisb 
lines ; outer margin, excepting at external angle, black, with dark grey fringe : secondaries 
with a bright yellow band near outer margin from first subcostal to first median branch, 
bounded internally by an oblique blackish streak and a series of groups of black scales ; first 
median branch mottled with black ; submedian vein black ; five black marginal spots ; fringe 
dark grey, excepting at anal angle ; an apparently grey arched central band produced by the 
transparency of the wing, which renders the markings of the under surface visible above : 
face spotted with brown in each corner. Under surface of wings pale stramineous, shading 
into ochraceous ; grey and blackish markings as above, but better defined, costal borders 
blotched with blackish : secondaries with a small black spot at tlie end of the cell followed by 
an arched black band from third fifth of costa to extremity of interno-median fold : body 
below white; legs mottled with black. Expanse of wings 52 millim. 
Cashmere. 
In form this species comes nearest to U. macuUcaudaria ; but in colouring it is unlike 
any other described Urapteryx ; it somewhat reminds one of Tristrophis veneris, but the 
ueuration is that of the typical genus. 
ENNOMID.E. 
TETE ACIS, Guen.^ 
Tetrads indica. (Plate CXXXV. fig. 16.) 
Pale brown, the primai'ies and abdominal half of secondaries slightly suffused with pink ; 
a slightly darker central band with dentate-sinuate greyish edges, the denticles indicated here 
* llepreseiited by a female example only, the palpi of which are injured ; it is therefore possible 
that it may represent the type of an allied new genus. 
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