Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
Nymphalis Arethusus. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 427. _Donovan Nat. Repos._ 2.
_pl._ 48. _fig. super._
HABITAT: Brazil.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen black, spotted with light
blue. Wings black, having a great number of small light blue spots
sprinkled over every part, and variously shaped.
_Under Side._ Palpi black, with a white streak on each. Tongue, legs, and
breast black, the latter with bloody streaks on the side. Abdomen dark
brown. Wings reddish dark brown; the anterior ones having two faint blue
spots near the lower corners; and the posterior having a little group of
bloody spots at the shoulders, with a row of the same coloured spots
(five in all) placed along the external edges near the abdominal corners.
Margins of the wings entire.
ERYCINA JARBAS.
Plate VIII. fig. 2.
ORDER. Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Lycænidæ? _Steph._
GENUS. ERYCINA, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Papilio (Dan. Fest.), _Drury_.
ERYCINA JARBAS. Alis integerrimis atris, coeruleo micantibus singulis
utrinque fasciâ fulvâ, transversali, mediâ. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Fest.) Jarbas, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (1783.)
Hesperia (rur.) Perditus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 323. _No._ 222.
Erycina Perditus, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 590. _No._ 127.
HABITAT: Brazil. "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1775" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen nearly black. Wings
brownish black. An orange-coloured bar, about a quarter of an inch broad,
crosses the anterior wings from the middle of the anterior edges to the
lower corners, from whence another of half that breadth crosses the
posterior wings, meeting just below the anus.
_Under Side._ Tongue, legs, breast, and abdomen dark brown, the latter
having a small orange streak on each side. Wings coloured as on the upper
side. Margins of the wings entire.
{11}ERYCINA MENETAS.
Plate VIII. fig. 3.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Lycænidæ? _Steph._
GENUS. ERYCINA, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Papilio (Dan. Fest.), _Drury_.
ERYCINA MENETAS. Alis chermesinis, limbo tenuissimo nigro, margine antico
et externo anticarum latiori, flavoque maculato, posticis triangularibus.
(Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Pleb. urb.) Menetas, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (1783.)
Hesperia R. Tacitus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 308. 168. (1793.)
Erycina Tacitus, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 588. _Donovan Nat. Reposit._ 4.
134.
HABITAT: "Brazil, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" (_Drury's_ MSS.). Surinam
(_Fabricius_).
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