Oi'iental LcpUhpteroiis Insects. G7 



nearest representative of our genus, among the Ametabola, with which I 

 am acquainted is Scntigera. This annulose animal, although disposed in 

 the Chilopodomorphous, is close to its union with the Thysanuriforra 

 stirps: and Aconthea, in the series of Lepidoptera, follows immediately 

 after Bihlis and Limenltis, leading gradually to Jpatura. 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. 



Tab. IV, fig. 3, 3, a. 



Alee snprh nigricanti- fuses: nitore obsoleto ceneo lavat/s, ared costali 

 f)aI!idiore litnris iransversis dimidiatis variegatd ; anticce fascid 

 mnrginali lata ad apicem sensim attenuatd, posticce dhnidio apicali 

 omni ccerulescenti-griseis argenteo pulverulentis strigd extimd atrd 

 niveo fimhriatd cinctis: subths dilute corticinm limhis saturatiori- 

 bus ochraceis; anticcp. in regione anali basin versus striolis quinque 

 atris interioribus brevioribus rectis exterioribus flexuosis. (Exp. 

 alar. unc. 2j.) 



Papilio JV. Cocyta. Fab., Ent, Syst. em. torn. 3. pars. 1. p. 127. 



No. 388. 



Kymphalis? Cocyta. MM. Latr. et Godt., Enc. Meth. Hist, Nat. 



IX. 382. 



In selecting this insect for the present memoir, my principal object has 



been to contribute, as far as I am able, to the illustration of a doubtful 



Fabriclan species. A few explanatory remarks are therefore required. 



The first indication of our insect is in theMantissaInsectorum,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 cfEru- 



" lescente, vix tamen distinctum." In the Entomologla Syst. emend. &c. 



vol. 3, p. 127, we find an insect from the Museum ofM. 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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