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3. Both wings with 3 and 4 long--stalked Urapteroides. 
Both wings with 3 and 4 connate or separate 4. 
4. Palpi moderately long (1) with long terminal joint ; fore- 
wing in £ with 6 and 7 separate Micronia. 
Palpi short and slender with short terminal joint ; fore- 
wing in £ with 6 and 7 stalked ... ... ... 5. 
5. Forewing in $ with 2 and 3 stalked Acropteris. 
Forewing in $ with 2 and 3 widely separate Aplosehema. 
Gen. NYCTALEMOK 
Nyctalemon, Dal man, Act. Holm. 1824, p. 407; Hmps., Moths 
Ind. iii, p. 111. 
NYCTALEMON PATROCLUS. 
Papilio patroclus, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 2, p. 749. 
Nyctalemon patroclus, Hmps., Moths Ind. iii, p. 111. 
A widely distributed species forming several slightly different 
local races. 
N.Q. Cape York, 2. Cairns. Also from the Archipelago, 
China, and India. 
Gen. ALCIDLS. 
Alcidis, Hb., Verz. p. 289. 
Closely related to the Indian genus Nyctalemon, which differs 
in having a long tail traversed by veins 3 and 4 of the hindwing, 
and a shorter tail on vein 6. 
ALCIDIS ZODIACA. 
Zodiaca, Butl. 
This handsome daynying species is gregarious in its habits, and 
occurs abundantly in the coastal scrubs of North Queensland. 
There is a closely allied form in New Guinea, of which it might be 
regarded as a subspecies. 
Gen. URAPTEROIDES. 
Urapteroides, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 258 ; Hmps., Moths Ind. iii, 
p. 112. 
Palpi moderate ; terminal joint short. Eorewings with 3 and 
4 stalked, 6 and 7 stalked, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 free or anastomosing 
with 12. Hindwings with a short tail on vein 4 ; 3 and 4 stalked, 
6 and 7 connate. 
