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.
_Under Side._ The anterior wings, next the shoulders, are of a brown
orange, reaching half way along the wings, the remainder being rusty
yellow. On the orange ground, next the shoulders, are several black,
irregular, short lines, placed two and two, the middle, or spaces between
them, being clay-coloured. Two small black spots are placed on the
anterior edge, on each side near the base. Along the external edge is a
row of white angulated lines, above which is a row of ash-coloured marks,
with some dark spots thereon; and over this, is another row of
ash-coloured marks, shaped like acute angles, with an oblong streak in
the centre of each. The posterior wings at the base are dark orange, but
toward the external edges are rusty yellow, on which is a row of
crescents on a dark border. Above this is a circular bar or band of a
flesh colour, having a row of dark spots on the lower edge, and the upper
edge shaped like acute angles, with a black triangular mark in each, and
a white spot in its centre. About a quarter of an inch above this bar is
another of a clay colour, about one-eighth of an inch broad, with dark
spots and marks on it, some of which resemble Greek characters. Over this
bar is another near the base, of a clay colour, with a double row of
black marks or streaks on it.
Fabricius has confounded this species and another, under the name of
Penthesilea. Latreille and Godart have altered the specific name proposed
by Drury to that of Biblina, "parce qu'il a été imposé ultérieurement à un
genre de Lépidoptères diurnes." I have, however, restored the specific name
of Biblis, because the same name, was not {10}proposed for a genus by
Fabricius, until many years after the publication of Drury's work, in the
Synopsis of the Systema Glossatorum, published in Illiger's Magazine; and
because the employment of a proper name, like Biblis, for a species, even
when previously used for a genus belonging to a perfectly distinct group,
is not incorrect.