Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Ilithyia, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Fabricius
Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 131. _No._ 403. _Cramer, pl._ 213. _fig._ A. B.
[male].--214. C. D. [female].
Pap. Polinice, _Cramer, pl._ 375. _fig._ G. H. (var.)
Biblis Ilithyia, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 327.
HABITAT: Senegal, and Coast of Africa.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Wings fine
deep or brown orange. The anterior deeply verged with black along the
external and anterior edges; the former having a row of oblong orange
spots running parallel with them, which is continued, together with the
deep black margin, along the posterior wings to the abdominal corners;
the spots being larger along these wings than on the anterior. A black,
irregular, and indented line rises near the middle of the anterior wings,
and ends at the posterior edges.
_Under Side._ Palpi and breast orange. Legs brown. Anterior wings orange;
the external edges with a small, narrow, white indented margin. Four
small white spots are placed near the tips, that next the anterior edge
being least; and along the same edge are several other long black spots,
margined with white. Posterior wings with a row of white crescents placed
along the external edges; over this is an orange bar, next is a row of
cream-coloured spots almost round, being seven in number, with a row of
very small ones above them, consisting of fourteen; above this is an
orange bar, with a cream one {33}over it, being divided by a narrow black
line. Above these are two other bars; the first orange, the next cream
colour, separated by long narrow black spots; the colour of these wings,
next the body, being orange. All the wings are dentated.
PIERIS CALYPSO.
Plate XVII. fig. 3, 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. PIERIS, _Schrank. Latr. God._ Papilio (Dan. Cand.), _Linn. Drury_.
PIERIS CALYPSO. Alis rotundatis subintegris albis extimo nigro; posticis
subtus flavis seu nitenti-grisescentibus, limbo punctorum nigrorum serie
duplici, maculis flavis interjectis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Calypso, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2. _Fabr. Ent.
Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 191. _No._ 592. _Cramer_, _pl._ 154. C. D. ([male])
E. F. ([female]) _Enc. Méthod._ ix. _p._ 130. (Pieris C.) _Boisduval
Hist. Nat. Lep._ 1. 504.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. Thorax and abdomen nearly black. Wings
white; margined externally with dusky black. The anterior edges of the
anterior ones are also margined with black, from the middle of which runs
a black line to a round spot placed on the middle of the wings; the
mixture of the colours on these wings somewhat resembles the profile of a
human face. Posterior wings having a round spot placed near the middle of
each, with several fainter ones along the external edges, and two
stronger ones near the upper corners.
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