ENTOMOLOGY. 



are minutely speckled with black : those on the anterior wings are 

 somewhat sagittate and disposed into two irregular bands towards the 

 exterior half of the wings : those on the posterior wings are rather 

 larger and more inclining to an ovate form ; and three of the largest, 

 namely, one at the base, and two at the anal angle, are of a bright 

 yellow colour. The inner limb of the wing is grey inclining to 

 yellowish. The head and thorax are black ; the abdomen black with 

 the sides pale yellow. The spots being semitransparent the appear- 

 ance on the underside in a great degree corresponds with that above ; 

 there is a small difference, because instead of one yellowish spot at 

 the base of the posterior wing, there are two, another smaller than 

 that which appears at the base of that wing on the upper surface 

 being situated below it. We have been more minute in the descrip- 

 tion of these spots, because upon an attentive comparison of the insect 

 in Mr. Jones's Cabinet, with the Fabrician description, we perceive 

 some small deficiency in the latter, a circumstance, it must be con- 

 fessed, of rare occurrence in this author, but unquestionably worthy 

 of our notice and correction, as it is the only authority upon which 

 the species must in future rest. 



The country of this interesting insect is unknown ; it is remotely 

 conjectured only that it may be Africa. . The insect is represented 

 with its wings expanded upon a sprig of 



ERICA PARMENTARIA, 

 an elegant vegetable production of the Cape of Good Hope. 



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