copied out of a fine series of drawings made in Java under liis 

 own eye : they do not appear to differ in their formation from 

 others of this family, although the perfect insect possesses such 

 striking and peculiar generic characters ; one of the many facts 

 which prove the impossibility of making the Larva a primary 

 consideration in forming the genera of Lepidoptera. 



This is a rare insect, I have therefore been obliged to leave 

 the generic character imperfect, as the dissection of the mouth, 

 &c. v/ould destroy the specimen. The posterior margin in the 

 wings of the male is sinuated; in the female it is nearly straight ; 

 the underside of the wings in both sexes is the same ; the an- 

 terior pair reddish-brown, paler in the middle ; the tip and pos- 

 terior margin whitish : inferior wings reddish-orange towards 

 the inner margin, with an obsolete central curved band of the 

 same, and a black dot at the base of the inferior wings. The 

 head, palpi, and thorax are margined with orange, less conspi- 

 cuous in the female. 



Our knowledge of the genus Hesperia of Latreille (under which 

 the present insect would come) is little more than what was 

 known of ScaraboMs twenty years ago ; nor has Fabricius even 

 noticed one half of the species figured by Cramer. The larva 

 feeds on 



G^RTNERA Javensis 



Folils ovatis, obiusi-acumiiiatis, caule volubili ramosissimo, ramulis diffmis, 

 deflexis, 



a new species, discovered in Java by Dr. Horsfeild, who has 

 distinguished it by the above specific character. He informs 

 me the natives give it the name of Kakas-rambat, which last 

 word signifies twining or trailing. In the inflorescence and fruit 

 it differs not from G. racemosa. 



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