Plate [II]. fig. 4.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Arctiidæ? Steph.
Genus. Heleona, Swains. (Zool. Illust. N. Ser. 116.) Gymnautocera? Guérin. (Mag. d'Entomol. t. 12)
Heleona Papilionaris. Alis albido-flavis; margine venisque dilatatis, ramosis, nigris et versus medium coalitis, maculas albas efformantibus. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Phalæna (Noctua) Papilionaris, Drury, App. vol. 2. Cramer, t. 29. fig. A.
Phalæna venaria, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 2. p. 156. No. 96. Gmel. Linn. S. N. 2470. No. 701.
Habitat: China (Drury). "In Indis" (Fabr.).
Upper Side. Antennæ dark blue and pectinated. Tongue spiral. Head, neck, and thorax dark mazarine blue, spotted with white. Abdomen deep blue, with six white rings. Wings black, covered with a number of streaks and spots of a dusky brimstone; those nearest the body being much longer than those next the external edges; where eight of them form a kind of border on each wing, and are all placed on the membranous parts between the nerves. Margins of the wings entire.
Under Side. Breast and sides blue. Legs blue and white. Anterior wings with the anterior edges fine mazarine blue. The remaining parts of all the wings are exactly the same as on the upper side.