Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 1
Drury, Dru
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_Upper Side._ Head and neck light brown; thorax, dark blue, clothed with
white hairs; abdomen white, with a blueish tinge. Anterior wings next the
body white, occupying more than one half. The tips are black, which
colour runs along the anterior and external margins, encircling a large
spot of a deep orange, whereon are four small triangular black spots.
Posterior wings wholly white, and very slightly dentated.
_Under Side._ The mouth, breast, and feet are ash-coloured. Anterior
wings next the body white; the extremities of a deep flesh colour,
sprinkled over with a great number of small dark brown streaks. Posterior
wings of a yellowish flesh colour, and covered with small dark brown
streaks.
M. Boisduval has formed the present species, and another large Pieridean,
into the genus Iphias, which differs from Thestias, and Mancipium
(Anthocharis Bdv.), in the structure of the antennæ. The larva and pupa of
this species are described and figured by Dr. Horsfield, in his Lepidoptera
Javanica, pl. 3, fig. 7, and 7a, (copied by Boisduval, pl. 2A. fig. 3.).
The former is long subcylindrical, with the dorsal segments somewhat
rugose, being transversely shagreened; it feeds upon the Capparis. The pupa
is navicular, the head being produced into a point. The female imago
differs from the figure here given (which represents the male), in having
the black markings more diffused.
PLATE XI.
[Illustration]
PAPILIO PHILENOR.
Plate XI. fig. 1. and 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. PAPILIO, _Auct._
PAP. PHILENOR. Alis dentatis nigris, posticis caudatis virescenti-nitidis
maculis albis, subtus maculis fulvis albo notatis serieque digestis.
(Expans. Alar. unc. 3¾).
SYN. PAP. PHILENOR, _Linn. Mant._ (1771). 6. 535. _Fabr. Syst. Ent._ _p._
445. _No._ 12. _Smith and Abbot_, _Ins. Georgia_, _Vol._ 1. _tab._ 3.
_Encycl. Méth._ 9. 40. _Boisduval_, _Hist. Nat. Lepid._ 1. _p._ 324.
_No._ 167. _Boisd. et Leconte_, _Icon. Lep. Amer. Sept._ _pl._ 11. _f._
1-4. _Say_, _American Ent. Vol._ 1. _pl._ 1.
Pap. Astinous. _Drury_, _App. Vol._ 2. (1773). _Cramer_, 208. A. B.
HABITAT: North America, from New York to Georgia.
{21}_Upper Side._ Head and neck black, with two small white spots between
the antennæ at their base, and eight more on the head and neck. Thorax
black. Abdomen of a glossy hue. Anterior wings black, with a very glossy
greenish tinge at the anterior angle, with eight small, white, narrow
crescents on the external margin of each, which make them appear as if
dentated. Posterior wings of a dark glossy green, with two tails issuing
from them. The concave part of each scollop is edged with white; and six
whitish spots run along their edges, meeting below the extremity of the
body.
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