Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. et God. Papilio (Nymphalis Phal.), Linn. Drury.
Nymphalis Assimilis. Alis subrepandis nigris concoloribus, lineis maculisque albo-virescentibus, posticis strigâ apicali punctorum coccineorum. (Expans. Alar. fere 5 unc. [Drury] 3½ unc. [Enc. Méth.]).
Syn. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal.) assimilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 782. No. 194. Cramer, pl. 154. A. Esper. Pap. Exot. t. 57. f. 1. Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 39. No. 114. (Papilio Eq. Ach.)
Habitat: China.
Upper Side. Head black, with two white frontal spots. Thorax black, with three white stripes. Abdomen black, marked on the sides with white. Anterior wings sooty black, having a number of large spots and stripes on them of different forms and dimensions, of a greenish-grey colour. Near the external edge is a double row of sixteen small spots of the same greenish grey, and above them are five larger of a more circular shape. Posterior wings resemble the superior, but have a broad border of clearer black running along the external edge, whereon are five spots of a scarlet colour, inclining to pink, one having a small black spot in the middle. The wings are slightly dentated.
Under Side. Body black, and ornamented with round spots of clear white. At the base of the wings, is a remarkable round spot of a clear white, about the size of a pin's head. The wings are spotted as on the upper side, the greenish spots being rather larger, and in the inferior wings inclining to a yellow, the general ground of all the wings appearing more sooty on this side.
PLATE XVIII.
LIMACODES? ARENACEA.
Plate [XVIII]. fig. 1.