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Upper Side. Antennae black, with four white spots at the base and four on the sides of the neck. 

 Thorax and abdomen yellow brown. Wings black, like velvet ; anterior having the middle occupied 

 by a large triangular space of a deep orange, crossing the posterior ones, and meeting at the body : on 

 the anterior edges of this orange division are two distinct black spots, and a third very faint, situate in 

 the middle of these wings. Posterior wings having two projections at the abdominal corners, like the 

 rudiments of tails, with four yellow spots, and two very small white ones above them. A range of red 

 spots, some of them very small, runs along the external edges of these wings, reaching from the upper 

 to the abdominal corners. 



Under Side. Palpi yellow. Breast black, with yellow and white streaks and spots on its side and 

 front. Fore legs very short and black, the tips being white. Anterior wings along the anterior edges 

 of a dark yellowish grey, the tendons being black ; posterior parts of these wings reddish, verged with 

 black, and having a number of different shaped black spots on them. Posterior wings black, but along 

 the anterior edges cream-coloured, with five distinct round black spots on each; the remaining parts 

 of these wings being beautifully adorned with a variety of different colours running among each other. 

 Wings dentated. 



BIBLIS ARIADNE? 



Plate XI. fig. 3, 4. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalitte, 5itains. 



Genus. Biblis, Fabr. Latr. God. 



BiBLis Ariadne? Alls tlentieulatis, anticarimi apice truncato, griseis, strigis nigris undulatis ; subtus rufescenti- 

 fuscis nigro varlis, anticis apicc puncto costali albo. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 5 lin. ) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph.) Ariadne, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 778? Fabr. Eiit. Syst.lll. 1.;;. 383.? 

 Papilio Coryta, Cramer, pi. 86. E. F. 

 Papilio Merione, Cramer, pi. 144. G. H. ? 

 Biblis Ariadne, F:?ic. Mitli. ix. 327. 



Habitat : Coromandel, Java (Enc. Mitk.). " Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeatliman, 1776" {Drury's MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen grey brown. Wings grey, and appearing 

 mealy, shaded with blackish brown, particularly the anterior ones along the external edges, and next 

 the body along the anterior margin. Posterior ones also strongly shaded along the external edges. 



Under Side. Palpi rather long, and dark brown, almost black. Breast, legs, and abdomen 

 dark brown. Wings dark reddish brown, faintly shaded with streaks and marks of a darker brown, 

 having two small white spots at the anterior edges of the anterior wings near the tips. Wings 

 dentated. 



Drury refers this insect to the Linnaean Ariadne, which is from Java. It is therefore 

 with doubt that I give it the preceding synonyms, especially as Lepidopterists have 

 neglected to cite Drury's figures. 



