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PAN^THIA, Gum. 
Panaethia iridicolor. (Plate CXIII. fig. 3.) 
Panaethia iridicolor, Butler, Ann. ^ Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. vi. p. 227. n. 63 (1880). 
? . "Wings above pale emevald-green^ crossed in the middle by a broad angulated and 
•widely sinuated chrome-yellow belt; a widely undulated discal stripe, white internally and 
yellow externally ; external border washed with yellow, the veins and a series of internervular 
longitudinal rays beyond the discal stripe blue-black : primaries with a large and nearly 
complete annulus at the base, its inner edge yellow and its outer edge white ; a small spot at 
the base of the costal border and a curved transverse line on the discocellulars blue-black : 
secondaries with the upper half of the discocellular slightly blackish : body bright yellow ; 
frons greenish, bright green just in front of the antennie, the latter testaceous with the scape 
white ; posterior margins of abdominal segments silvery white. Under surface pure white ; 
primaries with a dark-green line on the discocellulars. Expanse of wings 59 millim. 
Darjiling {Lidderdale) . 
This beautiful and delicate species is nearer to P. hemionata of Guenee, from North 
China, than to any other known species j it is, however, entirely dissimilar in colour to any 
moth yet described. 
UllAPTERYGID^. 
UKAPTERYX, Leach. 
TJrapteryx primularis, sp. n. (Plate CXIII. fig. 4.) 
TJrapteryx picticaudata, Butler {nec Walker), Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xvii. p. 198. u. 3 (1883). 
Nearest to U. sciticaudaria; but considerably larger, of a bright primrose-yellow 
colour, with broader bands across the wings, and with the disk of the wings more strongly 
striated with brown; the caudal process on the secondaries comparatively broader and 
shorter. Expanse of wings 63 millim. 
Nepal ; Darjiling {Russell, (SjT.) . 
In the Sup[)lement to his Catalogue Mr. Walker wrongly identified a Darjiling example 
of this species with his U. picticaudata, and remarked — " This and U. sciticaiidata (sic) are 
varieties of one species, and are connected by U. multistrigaria with U. sambucaria." 
U. multistrigaria is a white species, and belongs to the same group as U. maculicaudaria of 
Japan and not to the U.-sambucaria group, so that it does not form a connecting-link between 
the present species (which Walker had before him) and U. sambucaria, or U. sciticaudaria 
and U. sambucaria ; indeed the two latter are, as Walker says, " closely allied, but the former 
may be distinguished by the additional line on the fore wings, and by the longer tails of the 
hind wings." 
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