6S LEPIDOPTERA. 



NYMPHALIS JACINTHA. 



Plate 37. fig. 1. 



Ch. Sp. N. alls repando-dentatis, fuscis ; anticis striga punctoram alborura, posticis apice albis 

 margine fusco lunulis albis. Expans. alar. 4— 4J unc. 

 N. with the wings scalloped, brown ; the anterior with a row of spots on the anterior 

 ' pair at the tips, posterior externally white, the margin being brown with white 

 hinules. Expanse of the wings from 4 to 4J inches. 

 Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Jacintha, Drury, app. vol. 2. pi. 21. f. 1. 2. Fabricius 



Ent. Syst. 3. I. p. 60. 9 

 Papilio (Nymph.) Liria, Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. I. p. 126. $1 

 Papilio Perimale, Cramer, pi. 65. C. D. 67. B. 



This curious butterfly was found in the province of Pe-tche-lee, in China. It is in all 

 probability the female of Pap. (N.) Liria, Fabr. 



It is represented, with P. Antiochus, on a leaf of the Urtica Nivea (White Nettle).* 



NYMPHALIS ANTIOCHUS. 



Plate 37. fig. 2. 



Ch. Sp. N. alis supra holosericeo-nigris, fascia communi nitide aurantia ; anticarum abbreviate. 

 Expans. alar. 2| unc. 

 N. with the wings above holosericeous black, with a broad shining orange bar com- 

 mon to all the wings, but abbreviated in the anterior pair. Expanse of the wings 

 2| inches. 

 Syn. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Antiochus, Linn. Mant. 1. 537. Drury, app. vol. 3. pi. 7. f. 



3.4. Fabricius Ent. Syst. 3. 1. p. 44. Enc. Meth. IX. p. 409. 

 Papilio Eupalemon, Cramer, tab. 143. /. B. C. Le Veloute. Daubenton, pi. enl. 

 68./. 3. 4. 



This insect is very rare in European cabinets of insects. The specimen floured by 

 Drury came from the Brazils, and Cramer's from Surinam. Fabricius, however, describes 



* Sir G. Staunton speaks of a cloth that the Chinese manufacture from the fibres of a dead nettle. Query 

 Is this the species employed for that purpose ? no other is noticed by that author in the lists of plants collected 

 in China. The nettle is of general use in Russian Tartary also ; the Kuriles, and other Siberian tribes, make 

 cloth, cordage, thread, &c. of it. Gordon, &c. 



