68 LEPIDOPTERA. 



NYMPHALIS JACINTHA. 



Plate 37. fig. 1. 



Cii. Sp. N. alis repando-deu talis, fuscis ; anticis striga punctoram alboruni, posticis apice albis 

 margine fusco lunulis albis. Expans. alar. 4 — 4^ unc. 

 N. with the wings scalloped, brown; the anterior with a row of spots on the anterior 

 pair at the tips, posterior externally white, the margin being brown with white 

 lunules. Expanse of the wings from 4 to 4 J inches. 

 SvN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Jacintha, Drury, app. vol. 1. pi. 21. f. \. 2. Fabricius 



Ent. Syst. 3. \.p. 60. ? 

 Papilio (Nymph.) Liria, Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 1. p. 126. $'>. 

 Papilio Perimale, Cramer, pi. 6.5. C. D. 67. B. 



This curious butterfly was found in the province of Pe-tche-lee, in China. It is in all 

 probability the female of Pap. (N.) Liria, Fabr. 



It is represented, with P. Antiochus, on a leaf of the Urtica Nivea (White Nettle).* 



NYMPHALIS ANTIOCHUS. 



Plate 37. fig. 2. 



Cii. Sp. N. alis supra holosericeo-nigris, fascia communi nitide aurantia ; anticarum abbreviata. 

 Expans. alar. 2| unc. 

 N. with the wings above holosericeous black, with a broad shining orange bar com- 

 mon to all the wings, but abbreviated in the anterior pair. Expanse of the wings 

 2| inches. 

 Syn. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Antiochus, Linn. Mant. 1. 537. Drury, app. vol. 3. pi. 7. /'. 



3. 4. Fabricius Ent. Syst. 3. \. p. 44. Enc. MHh. IX. p. 409. 

 Papiho Eupalemon, Cramer, tab. 143. /. B. C. Le Veloute. Daubenton, pi. enl. 

 68./. 3. 4. 



This insect is very rare in European cabinets of insects. The specimen figured by 

 Drury came from the Brazils, and Cramer's from Surinam. Fabricius, however, describes 



* Sir G. Staunton speaks of a cloth that the Chinese manufacture from the fibres of a dead nettle. Query, 

 Is this the species employed for that purpose ? no other is noticed by that author in the lists of plants collected 

 in China. The nettle is of general use in Russian Tartary also ; the Kuriles, and other Siberian tribes, make 

 cloth, cordage, thread, &c. of it. Gordon, &c. 



