The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . to Amathusia Paralekta of Horsfield (Lepid. Java,tab. 6, fig. 4), a species which seems to range all over India*, as Dr. Royle brought it from theHimalayas, figuring it in his work on that part of India from a native drawing. The dull colours ofthe underside of the wings of the present species, when closed, as well as of A. Paralekta, give theinsects all the a
The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . to Amathusia Paralekta of Horsfield (Lepid. Java,tab. 6, fig. 4), a species which seems to range all over India*, as Dr. Royle brought it from theHimalayas, figuring it in his work on that part of India from a native drawing. The dull colours ofthe underside of the wings of the present species, when closed, as well as of A. Paralekta, give theinsects all the appearance of so many withered leaves, which deception is greatly increased by thedark streak which runs along the middle of the wings, and which may be easily mistaken for themidrib of the leaf. The insect before us is at once distinguished from A. Paralekta by its colours, and by Avanting thesmall talc like spots in the fore wings. The plant figiu-ed is the Orchidaceous Cryptochilus sauguinea of Wallich, from Northern India. * The continental specimens are much more variegated in their mai-kings, their fore wings more acutely pointed at the tips, andthe tails much longer, than in Dr. Horsfields figure of the -Javanese PLATE XXVIII. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Noctduna. Familv—Noctuid^. Leach.) FIGURE USTULATA. Westw. Pliyllodes alis anticis elliptiois apice falcatis, fuacis, brunneo viiriis plaga magna versus apicem magia livida, stigmatemedio obliquo sublunato ; posticis fuscis angulo extcrno late fulvo ; omnibus subtus fuscis apicibus fulvescentibus. IMivllodes with the fore wings elliptic, having the tip falcate, brown, varied with brighter brown iiTorations, andhaving a lai-ge livid patch near the apex : the chai-acteristic stigma in the middle of the wing is very oblique andslightly lunate ; hmd wings brown, with a broad fulvous patch on the outer angle ; beneath all the wings are brownwith a fulvesccnt margin. The fore wings have a leaden gl
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