CETHOSIA BIBLIS.
Plate [IV]. fig. 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Sw.
Genus. Cethosia, Fab. Latr. God. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal.), Drury.
Cethosia Biblis. Alis subrotundatis dentatis fulvis, extimo fusco, lunulis albis anticarum serie triplici digestis (intermediâ minori), posticis ante marginem maculis nigris, singulis subtùs ad basin lineis maculisque flavis variis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Biblis, Drury, App. v. 2. (1773). Cramer, Pap. 15. pl. 175. fig. A. B. Herbst. Pap. tab. 248. fig. 1. 2.
Papilio (Nymph.) Penthesilea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 114. No. 349. (exclus. Syn. Crameri.)
Cethosia Biblina, Latr. et God. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 248.
Habitat: China (Drury). From the collection of the late Mr. Lee of Deptford.
Upper Side. The anterior wings, next the shoulders, are a brown orange, occupying half the wings; the other half, next the tips, are of a rusty red brown, whereon is a row of white crescents running along the external edge. Above this are five white squarish spots, and over them a row of angulated marks, like points of arrows, with white spots in their centres, above which is a single white spot, between which and the shoulders are some short black waved lines, extending between the two principal nerves. The posterior wings are entirely of a brown orange, except a rusty red-brown border that runs along the external edge, whereon is a row of white crescents, and above it are six black spots running parallel with the border, beneath which is a denticulated line of dark brown.