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.
{32}_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.