Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1 — John Shaqi
Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
_Under Side._ The anterior wings are red at the base; but along the
external and interior edges are of a rusty grey brown, with several dark
marks or clouds thereon. Near the anterior edge, towards the base, are
three black spots, with three small white ones in their centres. The
posterior wings are of a rusty grey brown, darkest in the middle, with a
margin of a paler colour, running along the external and part of the
upper edges. Several spots, of a silver white, are dispersed on different
parts of the wings; some being round, long, triangular, &c. About the
middle of each wing is a long silvery mark, running in a direction from
the base to the external edge; being about half the length of the wing.
Drury confounded this species with the European Papilio Rumina, Linn.
belonging to a distant genus (Thais), whilst Fabricius described it twice
under the specific names cited above.
ERYCINA LYSIPPUS.
Plate II. fig. 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Lycænidæ?
GENUS. ERYCINA, _Latr._ Hesperia (rurales), _Fab._ Papilio (Pleb. rur.)
_Linn. Drury_.
ERYCINA LYSIPPUS. Alis fusco-nigris, singularum utrinque fasciâ tenui
aurantiacâ; posticis angulatis, subtùs ad basin griseo maculatis.
(Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Pleb. rur.) Lysippus, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. _p._ 793. _No._
250. _Cramer, pl._ 380. _f._ A. _Fabricius Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 321.
_No._ 218. (Hesperia rur. L.). _Latr. et Godart, Encycl. Méthod._ ix.
_p._ 566. _No._ 11. (Erycina L.)
HABITAT: Jamaica (_Drury_). Guiana and Brazil (_Latr. et God._).
{5}_Upper Side._ The wings are of a chocolate-black. On the anterior is
an orange-coloured line, which, rising about the middle of the anterior
edge, crosses the wing towards the anal angle, where it suddenly bends,
and terminates at the posterior edge. The posterior wings, which are
angulated, have a circular orange line, rising at the anterior edge, near
the corner, crossing the wings, and meeting near the anal angle.
_Under Side._ The wings are of the same colour as on the upper side, with
the same orange line, whereon, in the anterior pair, are some white
spots. Between this and the base are several faint, dirty grey, oblong
spots, namely, four on the anterior, and about twenty on the posterior
wing. The base of the anterior margin of the fore wings, and the anal
margin of the posterior wings, are of a red colour.
HIPPARCHIA EUMEA.
Plate II. fig. 3.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swainson_.
GENUS. HIPPARCHIA, _Fabr._ Satyrus, _Latr. et God._ Papilio (Danai
Festivi), _Drury_.
HIPPARCHIA EUMEA. Alis integris subfuscis, anticis utrinque strigâ latâ
fulvâ, subtus serie communi punctorum alborum. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Festiv.) Eumeus, _Drury, App. to v._ 2. (1773).
_Cramer, pl._ 183. _fig._ C. D.
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