32 HAUSTELLATA.— LEPIDOPTEIIA. 



gratuitously to present my readers with facsimiles of this and an- 

 other apparently lost species of Papilionaceous insects which are 

 depicted in the rare " Papiliones Britannise," &c. by Petiver. 

 From the general accuracy which characterises this author's figures, 

 there is no doubt of this insect being distinct from M. Athalia, 

 which is figured by him as the Pap. tessellata serotina subtus al- 

 bida ; and as his Pa. tessellata serotina subtus straminea has not 

 been observed in modern times, I have, at the suggestion of Mr. 

 Haworth, who kindly offered the use of his copy of the work for 

 the purpose, republished Petiver's figures, tinted, in his rough style, 

 and resembling the present appearance of the originals, in order to 

 obtain some information relative to the existence of the species in 

 these days. In Petiver's time it was, as he informs us, " pretty 

 common in Cain-wood." From its close approximation to Me. 

 Athalia, I have no hesitation in referring it to the present section. 



B. Palpi incrassated, the second joint not cylindric, sometimes very broad and 

 fusiform, the terminal joint minute, ovate. 



«. Wings fasciated ivith yellow or ochraceous beneath. 



Sp. 4. Artemis. Alis supra fusco-nigris, fulvo JJavidoque tesseUatis, posticis 

 subtus fulvis fasciis tribus ochraceis, strigdque punciorimi subocellatorum 

 utrinque. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin. — 1 unc. 11 lin.) 



Pa. Artemis. Linnc. — Don. y'li. pi. 242,/. 1.— Me. Artemis Steph. Catal. 



Wings above reddish-fulvous, undulated with black, and spotted with yellow- 

 ish: the posterior with three distinct bands, of which the intermediate is 

 fulvous, and bears a striga composed of from four to seven black dots : the 

 imder surface of the anterior wings is glossy, and is very obscurely marked 

 as above, but the black is nearly obliterated, and at the tip are some ochra- 

 ceous dashes : the posterior wings beneath are fulvous, with three transverse 

 ochraceous yellow bands usually and slightly edged with black : the basal 

 band is irregular and broken, the central bent and entire, the third marginal 

 and composed of lunules : between the outer bands is a row of seven black 

 dots, obsoletely edged with ochraceous : the cilia are yellowish, interrupted 

 on the anterior wings by dusky : the body and antennae are dusky. 



Var. iS. With the base and posterior margin of all the wings brown-black : the 

 anterior wings tessellated with fulvous and whitish. 



Var. y. With the wings similar to the last at the base : the anterior with three 

 oblong fulvous spots near the costa, towards the middle : then a fulvous fascia 

 composed of very narrow elongated longitudinal stripes : a waved band com- 

 posed of quadrate fulvous spots, and a black marginal band bearing lunulated 

 fulvous spots : beneath similar to the first described. 



Var. S. Posterior wings beneath, with the irregular basal band, totally obliterated, 

 the central band not edged with black externally. 



