Butterflies; Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829
The caterpillar (Pl. VIII. fig. 2) is green, covered with small black
granules, and having a yellow line along each side, surmounted by
another of a blue colour. It feeds on the different kinds of _Cassia_.
The chrysalis (Pl. VIII. fig. 3) is likewise green, changing ultimately
to brown.
The butterfly is very common in Guiana, Brazil, and many other parts of
America.
GENUS TERIAS.
We owe the establishment of this genus to Mr. Swainson. It includes
a considerable number of species, the greater proportion of which
have been but lately discovered. They are small insects, of delicate
structure, and usually of a light yellow colour, with the apex of
the upper wings deep black. The caterpillars, as far as we are
acquainted with them, are attached to leguminous plants, and live
between the tropics both of the old and new world. The most important
generic characters are the following: antennæ of moderate length, the
articulations pretty distinct, terminating in an ovoid or conical club,
which is slightly curved downwards, and compressed laterally: palpi
very short, the terminal joint half the length of the preceding one,
naked, and a little salient; abdomen slender and compressed, nearly
as long as the inferior wings; wings of delicate texture, the costal
line a good deal arched towards the base. Caterpillars slender, linear,
and pubescent; chrysalis a little arched, and somewhat compressed,
terminating in a point anteriorly.
TERIAS MEXICANA.
PLATE VIII. Fig. 4.
_Boisd. Spec. gen._ p. 655. Pl. iii. C, fig. 1.
This insect was discovered not long since in Mexico, and is considered
rare. The colour of the surface is very bright citron-yellow, the
upper wings with a broad black border externally, which ends in a
quadrangular expansion a little before the middle of the internal
margin. The under wings have the outer border prolonged into an acute
angle, forming a kind of rudimentary tail, and the anterior half is
widely bordered with black. The primary wings are pale citron-yellow on
the under side, with a central black point, and have the outer border
near the fringe tinged with red; the secondary pair yellow, speckled
with ferruginous particles, and having a black point in the centre, the
extreme angle marked with a ferruginous spot, and the posterior half
with four or five other spots of the same colour, having sometimes a
tendency to form an irregular transverse band. The above description
applies to the male; the female has the surface of the wings
whitish-yellow, with the black border broader, and the anterior margin
of the secondary wings widely orange-yellow. The expansion varies from
twenty to twenty three lines.
GENUS EUPLŒA.
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