The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . centralpatch of the hind mng, with P. Helenus. The specimen figured is unique, and is contained in aCollection of Assamese Insects lately presented to the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. 6 ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. Adopting the excellent system of Nomenclature proposed with so much taste by Linnaeus, wherebythe species of the modem genus Papilio were distinguished by
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The cabinet of oriental entomology : being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured . centralpatch of the hind mng, with P. Helenus. The specimen figured is unique, and is contained in aCollection of Assamese Insects lately presented to the Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford. 6 ORIENTAL ENTOMOLOGY. Adopting the excellent system of Nomenclature proposed with so much taste by Linnaeus, wherebythe species of the modem genus Papilio were distinguished by the names of the famous heroes ofantiquity, the present species (in order at the same time to indicate its relation to Papilio Bootes) isnamed after Icarius, the son of CEbalus and Erigone; who, having been killed by some peasants ofGreece, whose companions he had made drunk with wine, (a liquor till then unknown to them, andwhich from its effects they thought to be poison, ) was transformed by Jupiter into a star, which wassupposed by some persons to be identical with the celestial Bootes. The Orchidaceous plant figured in the plate is the Dendrobium monileforme of Linnaeus, lately sentby Dr. Wallicb, to the Royal Gardens at Kew.. l.UJ. PLATE III. (ORDER—UOMOPTERA. Section—Trimeka. Family—Filgouidj:.—Leach.) FIGURE 1.FULGORA (HOTINA) CLAVATA. Westw. Fulgora rostro corporis dimidii longitudine, picco, apice in globum subrotunduin tcstaceum dilatato ; hemeljtrisbasi subalbidis, fusco-maculatis, apice fusco albido-ocellatis et maculatis; alls subpurpureo-albidis apicc lateftisco ; corpore albo-farinoso. Fulgora witli the rostrum about half the length of the body, of a pitchy colour, the apex dilated into a shiningtestaceous globe, the hemelytra very farinose, nith the base of a pale buff colour with pitchy brown spots, and theextremity brown with white rings ami dots ; the under wings pale dull purple, (which fades into pale buff) with abroad brown apex, the body very thic