_Upper Side._ The anterior wings near the base are of a brimstone colour; the tips and external edges being of a dark brown, nearly black, surrounding a large patch of a fine orange. The posterior are of brimstone colour, with a border round their edges of dark brown. The male has not this border. _Under Side._ Black; all the wings brimstone, without any marks, spots, or clouds whatever in the female, the male having its under side of a brighter yellow, with several reddish-brown spots on the inferior wings. There is the greatest confusion respecting the specific names of this, and several nearly allied species, which would be very difficult to unravel. Drury considered this insect as a variety of Evippe, whilst Fabricius, Latrielle, and Godart, give it as identical with the Linnæan Pyrene, which opinion I have adopted, although I am by no means certain as to the identity of the species; the under side of the wings offering no trace of the central discoidal black spot existing in that species. M. Boisduval has not diminished the confusion, in his work just published, by giving a species from Guinea, under the name of Evippe (which Linnæus states is from China), with the erroneous observation, "Il est probable que les anciens auteurs auront confondu sous le nom d'Evippe trois ou quatre espèces _Africaines_."--_Hist. Nat. Lépid._ 1. p. 574. {12}CYNTHIA LAOMEDIA. Plate V. fig. 3. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains_. GENUS. CYNTHIA, _Fab._ Vanessa p. _Latr. et God._ Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), _Linn. Drury_. CYNTHIA LAOMEDIA. Alis dentatis cinerascentibus lineis fuscis transversis undulatis ocellisque (quibusdam coecis) serie posticâ digestis; anticarum sex, posticarum quinque. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 9 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.) Laomedia, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. 772. _No._ 145. _Fabricius, Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 98. _No._ 302. _Cramer_, _pl._ 8. _f._ 10. _Herbst. Pap. tab._ 174. _f._ 1. 2. HABITAT: China (_Drury_). East India (_Linn._). Java (_Enc. Méth._). _Upper Side._ The wings are of a greyish purple and a little dentated. The anterior have on each four irregular black lines, running from the anterior edge near the body half way cross the wings, and six eyes on each, near the external edge, whose irides are white, some of which are oval, and one, being larger than the rest, is filled up with black and red; some are very faint. The posterior wings have six oval eyes on each, with white irides; three of which are more distinct than the rest, two of them being filled up with red and black. Two dark irregular lines run along and near to their external edges.