CATALOGUE OV DirRNAL LEPTDOPTEKA. 189 



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duabus mediis iiigro limitatis Mvis, externa posticanim latiore, 

 clariore et medio extus producta ; margine externo albido Imeis 

 duabus ciliisque nigris : anticie ocellis quinque nigerrimis pallide 

 fulvo cinctis nigro circumcinctis et argenteo decore pupiUatis, mag- 

 nitudine velut supra, distantibus : posticEC ocellis quinque nigern- 

 mis, secundo et quinto pauluni majoribus ; pnmo et secundo velut 

 in anticis, tertio et quinto flavo einctis et nebula flavo-fusca cir- 

 cumcinctis, quarto minimo nebula flava circumcincta. 

 Exp. alar. unc. 2^^^,. 



Labuan (Borneo). $ ' ^•^• 



E anientina may be looked upon as nearly intermediate between 

 E. Madura and E. ehqans- it differs, however, from both in the 

 form of the front wing^, which in this species are much broader and 

 more rounded at the apex. The large ocellus of the front wmgs 

 seems to indicate its nearer relationship to Madura ; but the general 

 colouring of the underside is more Uke that of degans. The form ot 

 the central bands, and the relative size of the oceUi, seem to pre- 

 clude the possibUity of E. elegans and argentma being opposite sexes 

 of one species. 



FOSSIL SPECIES. 



(Cyllo) septilta. 



Cyllo sepulta, Boisduval in Ann. Ent. Soc. France, p. 371, pi. 8 



(1840); also of Westivood (1851). 

 Vanessa sepulta, Lefehvre in Ann. Ent. Soc. France, p. /I, pi. 3. 



figs. A-C (1851). 

 "Dans les marnes des environs d'Aix en Provence" (Bois- 

 duval). 

 This very interesting species was described, and admirably figured 

 by Dr. Boisduval in the French ' Annales de la Societe Entomo- 

 looique' (1840); that gentleman considered it to be a Satyride 

 allied to SaUirns rohria, caumas, &c.*, which it somewhat re- 

 sembles in the form of the wings. , ^ ^ , 1.1 •, j 



In the French 'Annales' (for 1851), M. Lefebvre pubhshed a note 

 upon the species, in which he criticised Dr. Boisduval's paper, and 

 stated that the fossil species, instead of being aUied to rohria, was 

 evidently a Fanessrt— that the strong tail-like wing projection be- 

 longed to the front, and not to the hind wings, and represented the 

 ant^ular projection which occurs in all true Vanessidce, as an ex- 

 •imple of which he instanced Vanessa {Junonia) Archesia of Cramer. 

 This remarkable note was, moreover, accompanied by figures of the 

 species, representing the tail both upon the front and hind wmgs. 



In the same volume of the ' Annales ' Dr. Boisduval gives an ex- 

 cellent answer to M. Lefebvre's observations, m which he well re- 

 marks, " Nous n'avons jamais vu une seule espece avee les ailes 

 * Species of Lefhe. 



