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nearest representative of our genus, among the Ametabola, with which I 
am acquainted is Scutigera. This annulose animal, although disposed in 
the Chilopodomorphous, is close to its union with the Thysanuriform 
stirps: and Aconthea, in the series of Lepidoptera, follows immediately 
after Biblis and Limenitis, leading gradually to Apatura. These state- 
ments, which will be more fully illustrated in another place, accord with 
the arrangement of the series given in the Synoptic table of the stirpes 
of the first tribe of the Lepidoptera. See Horsf. Descr. Cat. &c. 61. 
ACONTHEA COCYTINA. 
Tas. iv, fig. 3, 3, a. 
Ale supri nigricanti-fusce nitore obsoleto eneo lavate, ared costali 
pallidiore Iituris transversis dimidiatis variegatd ; antice fascia 
marginali latd ad apicem sensim attenuatd, postice dimidio apicali 
omni cerulescenti-griseis argenteo pulverulentis strigd extimd atrd 
niveo fimbriatd cinctis: subtus dilute corticine limbis saturatior?- 
bus ochraceis; antice in regione anali basin versus striolis quinque 
atris interiortbus brevioribus rectis exterioribus flecuosis. (Exp. 
alar. unc. 24.) 
Papilio N. Cocyta. Fab., Ent. Syst. em. tom, 3. pars. 1. p. 127. 
No. 388. . 
Nymphalis? Cocyta. MM. Latr. et Godt., Enc. Méth, Hist. Nat. 
IX. 382. 
In selecting this insect for the present memoir, my principal object has 
been to contribute, as far as Iam able, to the illustration of a doubtful 
Fabrician species. A few explanatory remarks are therefore required. 
The first indication of our insect isin the Mantissa Insectorum, vol. 2, p. 29. 
After describing a lepidopterous insect found in Siam, from the Banksian 
Museum, with the name of Cocytus among the Papiliones Danai festivi, 
Fabricius adds the following note: ‘ Simillimum ex India Orientali 
* misit Dom, Lund: at alis dentatis margineque alarum postico cceru- 
* lescente, vix tamen distinctum.’’ In the Entomologia Syst. emend. &c. 
vol. 3, p. 127, we find an insect from the Museum of M. Lund, agreeing with 
the individual concisely indicated in the note of the Mantissa ; but it is 
there raised to the rank of a species arranged among the Nymphales, and 
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