CYANE ; OR, ZIGZAG* 
ground is blue, as it is on the table-tendon or 
upper edge. The superior wing is ornamented 
with black spots or clouds of various forms. 
There are four remarkable round or oval ones 
near the outward border; and those which 
Iseem to croud near the shoulders are orna« 
mented with blue and red, which separate or 
jjurround them in a manner not easy to be de- 
!;cribed. The legs are white; and the thorax 
\s of a dark brown, having two black marks 
i)n each side. 
! This Butterfly, though sufficiently common, 
n difFerent parts of the East Indies, is not very 
ften brought to Europe. It is, notwithstand- 
ig, well known among aurelians ; and may be 
;en in most cabinets of consequence, such as 
re have described it. We cannot, however, 
oast any knowledge of it's peculiar , habits ; 
nd are even uninformed as to it's appearance, 
ther in the caterpillar or chrysalis state. 
Goldsmith remarks, that the number of But- 
rflies is prodigiously great ; and that, though 
innsEus has reckoned up above seven hun- 
ed and sixty different kinds, the catalogue is 
still 
