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XVI. On some rare and beautiful Insects from Silhet, chiefly in the Collection 

 of Frederick John Parry, Esq., F.L.S., %c. By the Rev. Frederick 

 William Hope, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., fyc. Continued from page 1 12. 



Read November 1st, 1842. 



Order Lepidoptera. 



Family Papilionid^e. 



Teinopalpus, Hope, n. g. 



Corpus robustum ; capite fronte conico. Palpi capite longiores, conici, porrecti. Antenna 

 clava sensim increscenti. Pedes antici perfecti, tibiis in medio appendiculatis. AUe 

 antica apice acute falcata? ; cellula discoidali clausa ; vena mediana ramos quatuor 

 emittente, ramo postico venae subcostalis ad ramum furcatum praecedentem approxi- 

 mate. Alee postica caudatag. 



Sp. 16. Teinopalpus imperialis. Tab. XI. fig. 1,2. 



Alis viridi-pulverosissimis ; anticis fascia tenui transversa mediana nigra extus 

 flavo-marginata nebulisque duabus fuscis submarginalibus ; posticis caudfi 

 unica terminatis macula magna mediana flava nigro-cincta squamulis ci- 

 nereis lunulisque marginalibus flavis viridibusque ; omnibus subtus auran- 

 tiis nigro-striatis dimidio basali viridi ; posticis apicibus nigris griseo viri- 

 dique variis. 



Long. corp. lin. 15 ; expans. alar. unc. 3, lin. 10. 



Habitat in India Orientali, Silhet ; e Museo Dom. Parry descriptus. 



Sp. 1 /. Teinopalpus Parry^e. Tab. XI. fig. 3, 4. 



Affanis praecedenti at major, alis omnibus basi viridibus ; anticis minus fal- 

 catis nigro transversa strigatis nebulosisque ; posticis bicaudatis plaga 

 magna mediana pallide lutea nigro-pulverosa strigaque undulata nigra : 



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