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form of the hinder wings and the direction of the tail indicates an aflSnity to Gonepteryx ; but this resem- 

 blance being founded entirely on an artificial character deserves not much notice. 



There is, however, a considerable hiatus in the series which I am not enabled at present to supply ; and 

 it remains for future inquiry to determine whether the subjects already accumulated in other collections 

 will fill up the deficiency existing in ours, or whether the completion of the series depends on future dis- 

 coveries. 



This genus is illustrated in the second plate ; fig. 6 ; 6, a ; 6, b ; 6, c ; 6, d ; 6, e. 



49. LoxuEA Atymnus. AIcb supra fulvm, colore saturatiore IcBte aurantio, vel ditutiore in fiaves- 

 centem vergente ; anticcB limhis exteriore et apicali saturati fuscis, coloribus limite intermedio 

 arcuato conjunctis, apice dilatiore ; posticce limbo apicali pallidiore intus dilutiore evanescente, 

 vel pagind tota, dilutiore flavescente, margine interiore productiore canescente villoso, appendiculo 

 anali albo-pulverulento : subtus ochraceo-Jlavicantes, colore opaco pulverulento aqualiter diffusa, 

 strigis quatuor fuscescentibus parallelis, duahus inferioribics obsoletissimis, tertid communi ex 

 - lunulis contiguis conflatd, quarta intra-marginali obsoletissimd sapius inconspicua, ; appendiculo 

 anali punctis tribus lunaribus confiuentibus fuscis albo-pulvendentis imo diffusiore. (Exp. 

 alar. 1 unc. 2 — 6 lin.) 



Plate II., fig, 6 ; 6, a. 

 Papilio P. R. Atymnus. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 70. No. 662. 

 Myrina Atymnus. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 594. 

 Papilio Atymnus. Cram. pi. 331. D. E. Donov. Ind. Ins, (with a figure.) 

 Hospitatur in Musseo Domini Banks. 



Wings above in both sexes fulvous, the intensity of the tint varying in different individuals, from 

 florid but not glossy orange to pale saffron yellow ; anterior with the exterior and posterior 

 borders blackish-brown, the intermediate boundary being regular and passing in an arch from 

 the middle of the costa to the inner apical angle, leaving the greatest breadth at the tip : pos- 

 terior with a narrower and paler apical border, whose inner edge is slightly dentate and gra- 

 dually diffused in the ground colour of the surface, or entirely covered with a diluted yellowish 

 tint ; inner margin dirty grayish and downy, lengthened in the direction of the anal appendage, 

 which is irrorated with dusky white: underneath covered with a yellow ochraceous pulverulent 

 tint which is uniformly diffused over the whole surface ; marked with four brownish parallel 

 strigae, the two interior ones being very obsolete and apparent only in fresh and well-conditioned 

 specimens, the third extending over the middle of both pairs is the most distinct and composed 

 of darkish lunules in close succession, the fourth just within the margin is faint and interrupted; 

 the transverse anal extremity is marked with a brownish streak consisting of three confluent 

 spots, which are covered along the margin with whitish irrorations, the inner spot being diffused 

 over the rounded extremity of the anal appendage. The body is brownish above with a slight 

 admixture of yellow ; the thorax bears delicate silky hairs ; underneath these parts are covered 

 with a short close whitish down. The antennce are brown : tails pale fulvous with an obscure 

 brownish margin and a whitish tip- 



This species is described by Fabricius, who indicates Siam as the native country, and the specimen from 

 which his descrijition was probably made is still preserved in the Banksian Cabinet. Cramer has given a 

 figure in which the most distinguishing organs, the palpi, are wanting. Donovan's figure does not give a 



R correct 



