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I must also state, that for a great deal of valuable information respect- 

 ing the habits of the butterfly in its various stages, and also for a great 

 part of the larval descriptions introduced, I am indebted to the notes 

 and illustrations of these, which are contained in the Lepidoptei'ous 

 Catalogue of the Museum of the East India Company, compiled bv 

 Messrs. Horsfield and Mooi'e. Other sources of knowledge I have ap- 

 propriately credited in their proper place. 



It has been my object, as ftir as possible, to collect all reliable infor- 

 mation upon the described species, forming of each a perfect diagnosis, 

 so far as scanty sources of information would permit me. For the 

 first periods of their ephemeral existence I have been obliged to rely 

 exclusively upon the statements of others, whilst I can but regret that 

 my collection is not so full as to enable me to fulfill at least the latter 

 part of the plan I had laid out, and I can only hope that the constant 

 addition of new specimens will permit me in time to finish it more tho- 

 roughly. 



ORNITHOPTERA, Boisd. 

 1. Orn. Rhadamanthus, Boisd. 



Orn. Rlmd. Lucas, Pap. Exot. p. 5, (Orn. Amphrisius 'J, ) t. 2. f. 1. (1835). 

 Boisd., Sp. Gen. I. p. 180. n. 8. (1836). 

 E. Doubled., Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 2. (1844). 

 Diurnal Lepidopt., I. p. 4. n. 10. (1846). 

 Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co. I. p. 88. n. 178. (1857). 

 Pap. {Orn.) Rhad. G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Br. Mus. pi. L p. 6. n. 14. (1852). 



" List. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. 1. p. 5. (1856). 



Pap. Astenmis'^ Eschseh. Voy. Kotzebue. t. 4. f. A. B. C. (1830). 



•' Male. — Superior wings, resembling those of Heliocon^'f black, with 

 the nervules more or less bordered with obscure white or gray rays. 

 Inferior wings, very triangular, golden yellow, the nervules and a ser- 

 rated marginal band, deep black ; this last is preceded towards the anal 

 angle by blackish atoms ; emarginations entirely black. 



" Below, the fore wings are the same as above; the hind wings with- 

 out the blackish atoms. Head and thorax black, a red collar on the 

 prothorax near the head ; abdomen black above and yellow beneath ; 

 the breast marked with large red spots at the base of each wing. 



" Female. — Of greater size, the inferior wings being much larger, 



* Pap. Astenous is Fab. sp., a synonyme of Orn. Pompeus Cram, 

 t Orn. Heliacon, Boisd. is Orn. Pompeus, Cram. 



