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Upper Side. Antennae brown and setaceous. Palpi, head, neck, thorax, abdomen, and wings 

 reddish flesh-coloured ; the latter hav-ing some very faint waved lines crossing them. Cilia dark 

 brown. 



Under Side. Breast, sides, legs, and abdomen coloured as on the upper side. Wings yellowish, 

 with many small narrow streaks. On the external edges of the anterior wings is a dark brown patch, 

 near the tips. Cilia dark brow^^. 



I do not know to which of the modern genera of Noctuidse this insect belongs. 



HELEONA PAPILIONARIS. 



Plate II. fig. 4. 



Order : Lepidoptcra. Section ; Diurna. Family : ArctiidiE ? Steph. 



Gends. Heleona, Swains. (Zool. Illust. N. Ser. 116.) Gymuautoccra ? Guirin. (Mag. d'Entomol. t. 12.) 



Heleona Papilionaris. Alis albido-flaris; margine venisque dilatatis, ramosis, nigris et versus medium coalitis, 

 maculas albas eflbrmantibus. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Phala;na (Noctua) Papilionaris, Drury, App.vol.'i. Cramer, t. 29. /ig. A. 



Phalcena venaria, Fabr. Eiit. Sijst. 111.2./). 156. No. 96. Gmel. Linn. S. IV. 2470. Jfo. 701. 



Habitat : China (Drury). " In Indis " (Fair.). 



Upper Side. Antennae dark blue and pectinated. Tongue spiral. Head, neck, and thorax dark 

 mazarine blue, spotted with white. Abdomen deep blue, with six white rings. Wings black, covered 

 with a number of streaks and spots of a dusky brimstone ; those nearest the body being much longer 

 than those next the external edges; where eight of them form a kind of border on each wing, and are 

 all placed on the membranous parts between the nerves. Margins of the wings entire. 



Under Side. Breast and sides blue. Legs blue and white. Anterior wings with the anterior edges 

 fine mazarine blue. The remaining parts of all the wings are exactly the saiue as on the upper side. 



PAPILIO ANTENOR. 



Plate III. fig. 1. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : Papilionidae, Leach. 



Genus. Papilio, Auct. Papilio (Eq. Troj.) Drury. 



Papilio Antenor. Alis dentatis coneoloribus albo maenlatis ; posticis caudatis ; disco atomis viridibus lunu- 

 lisque marginalibus rubris. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Eq. Troj.) Autenor, Drury, App. vol. 2. Donovan Ins. of India, pi. 15. f. 1. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 

 XW.l.p. -iO.No. 9. Boisd. Hist. Nat. Lep. l.p.l 89. No. 2. 



Habitat: Central Africa. 



Upper Side. Antennae red brown, but thickening gradually to the tips. Head fine scarlet. Thorax 

 velvety black. Abdomen white with scarlet rings. Anterior wings black, with three rows of cream- 

 coloured spots on each ; the two upper ones next the anterior edge being a little confused by running 

 into each other ; the lower one, running parallel with the external margin, is more regular. These 

 spots, being nineteen in number, are of cUfferent sizes and shapes ; some being round, some oval, trian- 

 gular, &c. Posterior wings black, with two tails ; having four rather broad scarlet crescents placed above 



