Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Etheocles, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (nec
_Fabricius_.)
HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen nearly black. The
external part of the wings black, but next the body of a blueish cast. A
blueish white bar, about a third of an inch in breadth, rises in the
superior wings, and, crossing the inferior, meets just below the abdomen.
At the tips of the former are five small oblong whiteish spots, and two
larger, placed close to the forementioned bar, but separated from it by
the tendons of the wing. Posterior wings furnished with four short tails
of equal length, having four small white spots at the abdominal corners,
and a small yellow crescent about the middle of the external edge.
_Under Side._ Palpi, legs, and breast white. Abdomen brown. Anterior
wings next the body of a blueish ash-colour, which becomes darker as it
approaches the external edges. Half these wings next the body, is adorned
with many differently shaped spots of a dirty red, verged with black. A
range of not less than seven oblong black spots is situated along the
external edges, and the whiteish bar, visible on the upper side, is here
to be seen, but not so regular. The ground of the posterior wings is the
same colour as the anterior, with several reddish spots differently
shaped, and verged with black. Anterior edges white, and along the
external edges are a number of small black spots and streaks not to be
distinctly described.
The name of Etheocles, which Drury applied to this insect, without any
reference to Fabricius, had been previously employed by that author for a
distinct but nearly allied species, which he indeed regarded as identical
with Drury's insect. The distinctions between the two species were first
pointed out in the Encyclopédie Méthodique, in which work the name adopted
above was given to Drury's insect.
PLATE XI.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) BERENICE.
Plate XI. fig. 1, 2.
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) BERENICE. Alis supra nigris, fasciâ communi rufâ,
disco nigro maculato; posticis subtus albo, flavo ferrugineoque
maculatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Berenice, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. (1783.)
_Fabr. Mant. Ins._ 2. _p._ 48. _No._ 471. (1787.)
Papilio Zingha, _Cramer_, _pl._ 315. _fig._ B. C. _Herbst._ _t._ 151.
_fig._ 3. 4. _Donovan Nat. Repos._ 3. 107.
HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
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