Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
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_Upper Side._ Antennæ deeply pectinated and brown. Head white. Thorax and
abdomen yellowish grey. Anterior wings white, edged with a dull blackish
colour, and a large patch of the same at the tips, with two streaks also
running from the anterior edges almost across the wings; one near the
shoulders, the other in the middle, both narrowing as they go, and ending
in points. A little group of spots is also placed at the lower corners.
Posterior wings white, but next the body yellow, with a very irregular
dark border running along the external edges, on which are several white
spots unevenly dispersed, and of various forms.
_Under Side._ Palpi white, tipped with black. Fore legs red underneath,
and black above, the ends being black: the other legs grey, the tips
black. Breast and abdomen yellow grey. Wings coloured as on the upper
side, but fainter. Margins of the wings entire.
CALLIMORPHA? NERINA.
Plate V. fig. 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Arctiidæ, _Steph._
GENUS. CALLIMORPHA? _Latr._ Phalæna (Noctua), _Drury_.
CALLIMORPHA? NERINA. Alis anticis nigris, nervis basalibus luteis,
fasciis duabus punctisque submarginalibus albidis, posticis
fulvo-brunneis apice nigro, punctis submarginalibus albis. (Expans. Alar.
3 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Bombyx) Nerina, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ strongly pectinated and brown. Head brown, the
front being white. Thorax brown, with two white streaks along it. Abdomen
brown. Wings black, streaked with light brown from the shoulders along
the tendons, and two light yellowish patches, almost crossing the wings
from the anterior edges, with a row of white coloured spots placed along
the external edges. Posterior wings dark yellow, with a deep black border
running along the external edges from the upper to the abdominal corners.
_Under Side._ Palpi black. Mouth white. Neck and breast yellow. Legs
brown, and yellow at top, and white beneath. Abdomen white, streaked
longitudinally with brown. Anus yellow. Wings coloured as on the upper
side, but brighter. Margins of all the wings entire.
{7}PLATE VI.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS DECIUS.
Plate VI. fig. 1, 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), _Drury_.
NYMPHALIS DECIUS. Alis supra fuscis, fasciâ communi albâ; posticis
caudatis, ad angulum ani rufis ocellis duobus. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3
lin.)
SYN. Papilio Decius, _Cram._ _pl._ 114. A. B. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1.
_p._ 67. _No._ 210. _Herbst._ _tab._ 56. _f._ 112. Nymphalis D., _Enc.
Méth._ ix. _p._ 363. _Donovan Nat. Repos._ 4. 109.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone (_Drury_). Interior, near the Gold Coast
(_Donovan_).
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