Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
ERYCINA AMPYX. Alis subintegris supra fuscis, anticarum maculis duabus
flavis; subtus omnibus flavis, maculis ferrugineis auro-pupillatis.
(Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Pl. urb.) Ampyx, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
Erycina Ampyx, _Latr. & God. Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 586. _No._ 105.
HABITAT: Brazil. "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ white, brown at their extremities. Thorax, abdomen,
and wings brown; the anterior wings having two oval straw-coloured spots
placed near the middle, and the anterior edges of the posterior ones
streaked with the same colour.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, legs, and abdomen straw-coloured. Wings
straw-coloured, being spotted and streaked with red brown, each of these
markings appearing to have a gold spot or streak in its centre, forming a
very beautiful and singular appearance. Margins of the anterior wings
entire, but of the posterior ones a little dentated.
PAPILIO AGAVUS.
Plate IX. fig. 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. PAPILIO, _Auct._ Papilio (Equit. Troj.), _Linn._
PAPILIO AGAVUS. Alis atris concoloribus; anticis fasciâ, posticis disco,
albidis; his caudatis lunulis marginalibus anguloque anali chermesinis.
(Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Eq. Achiv.) Agavus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Stoll. Suppl.
Cram._ _pl._ 32. 1. 1. A. _Latr. & God. Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 73. _Boisd.
Hist. Nat. Lep._ 1. _p._ 306. 142.
Papilio Lysander? _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 9.
HABITAT: Brazil.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Neck red. Thorax, abdomen, and wings black.
A narrow straw-coloured bar runs from the anterior edges of the superior
ones near the tips, and, crossing the posterior edges, terminates in a
large spot of the same colour on the posterior wings, situated near the
shoulders. Posterior wings furnished with two short and two longer tails,
and having two large carmine-coloured spots placed near the abdominal
corners, and three others, that are smaller, along the external edges.
_Under Side._ Palpi and tongue black. Breast the same, the sides having
streaks of red on them. Abdomen black, and the sides streaked with red.
Wings nearly the same colour as on the upper side; the red spots on the
posterior ones being more numerous, and those at the abdominal corners
not so large.
{13}PLATE X.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) ETESIPE.
Plate X.
ORDER: Lepidoptera, _Linn._ SECTION: Diurna, _Latr._ FAMILY: Nymphalidæ,
_Swainson_.
GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Eq. achiv.) _Linn. Drury._ Papilio
Nymphalis, _Fabr._ (SUBGENUS: Charaxes, _Boisduval_.)
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) ETESIPE. Alis supra atro-coeruleis, subtus albo
griseo nigro ferrugineoque marmoratis; utrinque fasciâ albâ, mediâ,
anticarum interruptâ. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Nymphalis Etesipe, _Latr. & God. Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 355. _No._ 19.
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