DEIPHOBUS. 
ration, or order, from any of the other four 
classes just en^umcrated. 
The Butterfly in the annexed print, which 
we are now particularly to describe, has re- 
ceived from Linnsus the name of Deiphobus ; 
and it arranges itself, according to the system 
of that great naturalist, under the genus Equi- 
tes : it is, consequently, regularly denominated' 
the Deiphobus, Equites, of Linnaeus. 
For the following minute description, as 
w^eli as for the original delineation, of this hue 
Butterfly, we are indebted to that celebrated ! 
English Aurelian, the late Mr.- Moses Harris. 
The antenna, head, thorax, and abdomen, 
together with the superior wings, are of a fine 
dark brown ; eacli wing having, however, 
near the shouldt;r ligament, two triangular 
Npots of deep scarlet ; the largest of which is 
nearly three-quarters of an inch long; and 
the smallest, beneath it, about the size of a 
canary-seed. I'he inferior wings are of an 
orange brown, but very pale ; and, in the cen- 
tre, on each membrane, near the fan edge, is a 
large 
