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 . e, witha very slender white semicircular line and a very minute vitreous dot. At some distance beyond the ocelli are twoparallel ashy or rather slaty-grey sti-igse, ahnost straight in the fore wings, but much cm-ved in the hind ones,extendmg from the apical angle of the fore ones to the anal of the hind ones ; the space beyond these strigteis of a pale
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 . e, witha very slender white semicircular line and a very minute vitreous dot. At some distance beyond the ocelli are twoparallel ashy or rather slaty-grey sti-igse, ahnost straight in the fore wings, but much cm-ved in the hind ones,extendmg from the apical angle of the fore ones to the anal of the hind ones ; the space beyond these strigteis of a pale colour. Towards the base of the wings is a very obscui-e transverse strigse, and the space between theouter mai-gin and the ocellus of the hind wmgs is of a richer pm-pUsh red. The antennje are dark fulvous-brown,and the head and body are red brown. The colouring on the underside of the wings is nearly similar, but thestrigje are almost obhterated. Expansion of the fore wings rather more than 5^ inches. Inhabits Communicated by Lieutenant Robinson. The plant represented in this plate is the Spathoglottis Fortuni of Lindley, from Hong Kong; andthat figured in Plate XIX. is the Lilium Thomsonianum of Royle, from 4 PLATE XXI. (ORDER—LEPIDOPTERA. Section—Diursa. Family—Nympualid^. Leach.) CHARAXES PSAPHON. Westw. (Middle and upper left hand figures). Charaxes alis omnibus supra fulvo-femigineis, dimidio extemo antieainim plagaquc maxima externa posticanminigris ; subtus omnibus brunneo, lutescenti, et griseo variegatis, lineisquc variis nigris, faseias irregulares, in mediobasali alanim, formantibus, albo marginatis. Charaxes with all the wings on the upper side of a very rich dark fulvous red colour, the outer half of the forewings and a very large patch on the hind wings, occupying nearly the outer half, of a black colour, the imder side ofall the wings varied with glossy brunneous, dull buff and greyish tints, the basal half of the wings varied withirr
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