8 

 produce of road sides, afford them temporary nourishment, until thev have found a place of 

 security from the wind and weather." Ur. Harris, in a communication to me, has stated, 

 that he had ascertained that this insect was the Acria of Fabricius, and that Professor Peck's 

 name must, therefore, be rejected. Abbot observes, respecting this caterpillar, that it is 

 " a general devourer of all field and garden-plants, and weeds. It spun up in a thin web, 

 intermixed with its own hairs, on the l6th of May, and the moth came out on the 2d of 

 .Tune. Others of the autumnal brood, taken in September, spun up on the 18th of that 

 month, and remained in the chrysalis until the '21st of April." 



CETHOSIA CYANE. 



Plate IV. fig. I. 



Order ; Lepidoptcra. Section : Diurna. Family : Nymphalidae, Swaiiis. 



Genus. Cethosia, Fabi: Latr. et God. Papilio (Nymphal. Plialerat.), Dniry. •■ 



Cethosia Cyane. Alis dentatis iiigris, linea communi tenuissima angulata marginal!, anticis fascia posticis 

 disco (nigro punctato) albis. (Expans. Alar. unc. 3J.) 



Syk. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Cyane, Drvnj, App. v. -2. Herhst. Pap. tab. 248. fig. 3. 4. Cramer, Pap. 25. 

 pi. 29i,.fiff. C. D. Fabr. E)it. Syst. in. I. p. 115. .Vo. 352. Latr. et God. Encyl. MWiod.ix.p. 'iiT. (Ce- 

 thosia C'y.) 



Habitat: Bengal (Di-ury). India (Fabr.). 



Upjwr Side. The anterior wings are dentated and black : the anterior edge of a dirty olive brown ; 

 in the middle whereof a broad white bar arises, and runs transversely towards the middle of the e.xternal 

 edge, where, stopping at the distance of a quarter of an inch, it foi-ms, with some faint white spots, a 

 black border along the external edge, whereon is a row of narrow white angulated marks. The 

 posterior wings, which are deeply dentated, are white ; with a deep black border running along the 

 external edge, whereon is a row of white angulated marks, as on the superior wings, and above each 

 of them is a series of short white streaks, running parallel with the edge of the wing. Above these are 

 six round black spots, one situated between each nerve, and over them six more smaller, and fainter; se- 

 veral more spots being dispersed on the white parts of the wings, some very distinct, and others very faint. 



Under Side. The anterior wings are red, which colour extends from the base nearly half along the 

 wing, and which, towards the posterior edge, softens to a cream-colour. On this red ground are some 

 short black lines, with blue ones between them, extending between the two principal nerves. Tlie external 

 edge has a black margin ; whereon the white angular marks are seen more distinctly, being here shaped like 

 beards of arrows. Above this border, near the external angle, are two oval black spots, or eyes, whose 

 irides are white, having between them and the black border a row of small, round, black spots, placed 

 close together. The white bar described on the upper side is also seen here. Several more black 

 spots, of various fonns, are dispersed on chfterent parts, particularly a group in the centre of the wing. 

 The inferior wings are white, with pale cream-coloured clouds ; but next the base are white, blue, and 

 red, with black streaks, from whence a shade of blue and brown runs along the anterior edge to the 

 external angle, where a black border commences, whereon are angular white marks, like arrow beards or 

 points. This border continues to the abdominal corners, where two small, curved, black lines meet 

 together, and form an arch. Above the black border is a row of small black spots, and above them are 

 six larger, with several others, of different shapes and sizes, dispersed on various parts of the wings. 



