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DESCRIPTIONS OF INSECTS FIGURED IN PLATES 9 AND 10. 
By J. 0. WESTWOOD, Esa., F.L.S. 
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ORDER DERMAPTERA LEACH. 
Famity ForricuLipa. 
ForricuLa Macroryeca, Westw. 
Forficula micropyga (errore sculptoris) in Tab. 9, fig. 12. 
Piceo-nigra, punctata, abdomine zeneo submicante, mar- 
ginibus thoracis, tegminibusque rufescentibus, forcipe ( 4) 
longissimo valde curvato, et gracili; (9) fere recto tenuis- 
simo. 
Long. Corp. (forcipe excluso) ¢ lin. 6 ¢ lin. 5. 
Ad genus Forficulam (stricte sic dictum Servilleo) apper- 
tinet, statura fere Forficule auriculariz et paullo robustior, 
caput nigrum punctatum, impressionibus duabus anticis 
Antenne 2 (¢ mutilate) 13-articulate 
graciles rufescentes, articulis basalibus obscurioribus.— 
Prothorax planus antice vix emarginatus, lateribus antice 
rectis, postice rotundatis, niger punctatus, margine tenui 
rufescenti ; foveolis duabus rotundatis, antice impressus.— 
Tegmina piceo-refescentia, punctata, portio alarum detecta 
concolor. Abdomen nigro-picum punctatum eneo sub- 
micans; segmento penultimo lateraliter et angulariter 
producto (¢) aut simplici (¢). Forceps (3) niger valde 
elongatus, gracilis ad basin, valde externé curvatus, in 
medio, dentibus duobus parvis internis instructus, apice 
sursum et exterius producto, acuto (¢) elongatus multo 
gracilior, rufescens fere rectus et inermis. 
ORDER LEPIDOPTERA LINN. 
DIURNA,. Famity Paritionipz. 
Paritio Macuaon, Linn., Tab. 10, fig. 4. 
This handsome butterfly, like Vanesse Antiopa, and 
Atalanta, Cynthia Cardui, and some others, affords an 
instance of wide geographical range,* rather than of repre- 
sentative structure, since the individual figured cannot be 
inter oculos, 
regarded as specifically distinct from the European speci-— 
mens, which differ amongst themselves in various slight 
particulars, as the size of the dark bars, and spots, &c. 
It may, however, be noticed, that the specimen figured 
has the small oval black spot near the extremity of the 
anterior wings almost entirely isolated, the large basal 
black portion of the same wings is very strongly covered 
with yellow powder, whilst the black lunules of the poste- 
rior wings are not nearly so much powdered with blue 
bloom, as in the ordinary English specimens. 
Fam. Nympwaripz. 
Parnia Parakexta, Horsfield. Lepidopt. Javanica. 
No. 2, plate 6, fig. 4. Sine descript. Tab. 10, fig. 3. 
Paph. alis anticis ad apicem acutis, posticis subcaudatis; 
anticis supra ad basin ceruleis, fascia obliqua lata fulva in 
medio, apiceque nigro; maculisque duabus parvis albis 
(una discoidali, altera apicali) ornatis ; posticis czruleis, 
The preceding characters, drawn from the upper surface 
of the wings of this remarkable butterfly, will suffice for its 
determination until the publication of Dr. Horsfield’s des- 
cription, The under surface of the wings are, however, 
much more remarkable, bearing a most striking resemblance 
to a pale dried leaf; the deception being much increased by 
the form of the wings, when brought in contact by the 
Insect, whilst sitting upon a flower in the sun-shine, the 
short caudal appendages giving rise to the idea of the stalk 
of the leaf, thus completing the delusion. 
DIVISION? 
Genus Campytores, Westw. 
Genus anomalum, Heleone et Anthonoyze Sw. Gym- 
nanto cereque Guér, affine, ale oblong, subovales, inte- 
gre, nervis apicalibus valde curvatis, antice cellula discoi- 
dali clausa nervos duos postice emittens, quorum exterior 
trifurcatis, posticee etiam cellula discoidali clausi, nervo 
? Fam. Zycaniwe ? 
. recurrente intermedio bifurcato. Corpus parvum abdomine 
gracili, pone alas haud protenso. Caput parvum. Ocelli 2. 
Antenne graciles biramose. Palpi brevissimi supra haud 
discernendi, maxilla elongate spirales. 
CampyLoTEs HISTRIONICUS, Westw. /Eneus, alis ad costam 
rufo—, interne flavo-lineatis, maculisque apicalibus albis. 
Tab. 10, fig.1. Long. Corp. lin, 11. Expans. alar. une. 3. 
Habitat in Nepalia. Hardwicke; in Moutius — 
yanis, Royle. 
Corpus nigro-zneum, palagris maculisque alidoletsidlibos 
lateralibus flavis. Ale antice senex, costa, fasciisque 
duabus discoidalibus rafis, fasciiisque tribus internis per 
totam longitudinem alarum currentibus flavis; maculis 8 
vel 9 (spatium inter nervos apicales occupantibus) albis. 
Alz postice similiter colorate, at maculz terminales flavo 
ornantur. 
This remarkable Insect appears to be the extreme type of 
a very numerous Indian group of Lepidoptera, to which 
belong the species named Capys_pectinicornis, Thallo,and 
* Messrs. Godart and Latreille, in the Encyclopédie Méthodique (vol. IX., Art. Papillon) state, that Pap. Machaon i is — 
in Syria and Egypt. 
