Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2
Drury, Dru
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_Upper Side._ Head deep yellow. Antennæ filiform, dark brown. Neck and
thorax yellow, with two small black spots on the former, and four on the
latter. Abdomen yellow. Wings deep yellow; the anterior being nearly
orange-coloured, and having several rows of small black spots crossing
them from the anterior to the posterior edges, most of which are very
irregular and uneven; the two last next the external edges being the
least so. The number of spots on each of these wings is forty. Posterior
wings with black spots, but much larger than those on the anterior,
except three, which run along the external edges; the whole number being
eleven.
{14}_Under Side._ Palpi yellow, tipped with black. Tongue spiral. Legs,
breast, and abdomen yellow, the last spotted with black. Wings deep
yellow. The anterior spotted with forty black spots, larger and stronger
than on the upper side. Posterior wings also spotted as on the upper
side. Edges of all the wings entire.
CALLIMORPHA? GLAUCOPIS.
Plate VI. fig. 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Arctiidæ, _Steph._
GENUS. CALLIMORPHA? _Latr._ Zygæna p. _Fabr._ Phalæna (Bombyx), _Drury_.
CALLIMORPHA? GLAUCOPIS. Collari sanguineo, alis nigricantibus, anticis
fasciâ obliquâ niveâ. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Bombyx Spiriling.) Glaucopis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
_Cramer_, _tab._ 322. _f._ D. Zygæna Glaucopis, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III.
1. _p._ 400. _No._ 47. _Gmel. Linn. S. N._ 2397. 140. (Sphinx.)
HABITAT: Bengal (_Drury_). Carolina (_Fabr._).
_Upper Side._ Head black. Antennæ black, and very large and deeply
pectinated. Neck fine scarlet. Thorax and abdomen black, tinged with
mazarine. Wings black, immaculate; except the anterior, whereon is a
white bar, beginning near the middle of the anterior edge, crossing the
wing, and ending at the lower corners.
_Under Side._ Palpi small and black. Tongue spiral. Breast mazarine,
intermingled with black. Legs long and black. Thighs mazarine. Abdomen
black, tinged with mazarine. Wings coloured as on the upper side. Edges
entire.
PLATE VII.
[Illustration]
IDÆA LYNCEA.
Plate VII. fig. 1.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. IDÆA, _Fabr. God._ Papilio (Dan. Fest. or Eq. Hel.), _Drury_.
IDÆA LYNCEA. Alis elongatis integerrimis cinerascentibus, venis
maculisque permultis nigris; anticis subfalcatis. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 9
lin.)
SYN. Papilio Lynceus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
Papilio Idea, _Stoll. Suppl. Cramer_, _pl._ 42. _f._ 1.
Idea Lyncea, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 195.
HABITAT: The Island of Johanna, near Madagascar.
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