IDÆA LYNCEA.
Plate [VII]. fig. 1.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.
Genus. Idæa, Fabr. God. Papilio (Dan. Fest. or Eq. Hel.), Drury.
Idæa Lyncea. Alis elongatis integerrimis cinerascentibus, venis maculisque permultis nigris; anticis subfalcatis. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 9 lin.)
Syn. Papilio Lynceus, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Papilio Idea, Stoll. Suppl. Cramer, pl. 42. f. 1.
Idea Lyncea, Enc. Méth. ix. p. 195.
Habitat: The Island of Johanna, near Madagascar.
Upper Side. Antennæ black and subfiliform. Head, neck, and thorax black, spotted, and streaked with white. Abdomen black. Wings almost transparent, and of a glassy hue, much resembling common glass; having a great number of black spots like velvet on them of different shapes and sizes, some being round, some oblong, and others like streaks; there being on each of the anterior wings twenty-eight distinct ones, besides those placed next the anterior edges, which are not easily ascertained, from their running into one another. Posterior wings with thirty-three distinct spots like those on the anterior, whereof some appear double.