LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 7 



Boisd. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. ii. 248. Faun. Ent. Madagasc. Lep. 



112, pi. 14, f. 1, 2. Crochard, ed, Regne Anim. Atlas. Ins. pi. 



144, f. 3. 

 Chrysiridia Riphearia, Hubn. Verz. Schmett. Lares Heroica? Chry- 



'sidioe, 289, 2811. 

 Leilas Orientals, Swainson, Zool. Illustr. 2nd Ser. pi. 130. 



China. Bengal. Cororaandel. Madagascar. 



a. Madagascar. 



The original Rhipheus of Drury and Esper, or the Rhipheus 

 dasycephalus of Swainson, is either one of the Papilionidae, or an 

 incorrect figure of the Rhipheus of Cramer, and of other authors. 





Genus 2. NYCTALEMON. 



Corpus sat longum. Palpi longi, caput multo superantes, arti- 

 culo lo longissimo gracili compresso. Alae latiores; anticae margin e 

 externo minus obliquo ; posticae vix caudalae. 



Nyctalemon, Dalman, Act. Holm. 1824, 407; Westw. ; Blanch. 



Hist. Nat. Ins. ii. 349; Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pap. 230. 

 Papilio (Equit. Achiv.) p., Linn. 

 Noctua, p., Fabr. 

 Urania (Div. C.) Latr. ; God. 

 Orontes (Sub -gen.), Swainson, Zool. Illustr. 2nd Ser. 125. 



1. Nyctalemon Orontes. 



Alee nigra?, fasciis duabus virescentibus ; postica caudis albis re- 

 motis. 



Papilio Orontes, Linn. Amcen.Acad. vL 402, 51 ; Syst. Nat. ii. 750, 

 . 27. Clerck, Icon. pi. 26, f. 1. Fabr. Sp. Ins. ii. 20, 80 ; Mant. 



Ins. ii. 10, 91; Ent. Syst.m. 69, 214. Seba, Mus. iv. pi. 



16, f. 1, 2, pi. 47, f. 7, 8. Herbst, Pap. pi. 47, f. 1, 2. Esp. 



Pap. Exot. pi. 30, f. 1, 2. Cram. Pap. Exot. i. pi. 83, f. A. B. 

 Nyctalemon Orontes, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. Pap. 231, f. 396. 

 Urania Orontes, Lam. Hist. Anim. Invert, iv. 19, 3. God. Enc. 



Meth. ix. 710, 4. Boisd. Voy. de I' Astrolabe, Pt. 1, Lep. 253, 



1. Feisthamel, Voy. de la Favorite, v. Suppl. 29. 

 Alcides Orontiaria, i??i£w. Samml. Exot. Schmett. i. Lep. v. Geom. 



i. Amplov, iv. Lares B. Heroici, 3, f. 3, 4 ; Verz. Schmett. 



289,2810. 



