Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
Insects -- Pictorial works
{14}_Upper Side._ Antennæ black, with four white spots at the base and
four on the sides of the neck. Thorax and abdomen yellow brown. Wings
black, like velvet; anterior having the middle occupied by a large
triangular space of a deep orange, crossing the posterior ones, and
meeting at the body: on the anterior edges of this orange division are
two distinct black spots, and a third very faint, situate in the middle
of these wings. Posterior wings having two projections at the abdominal
corners, like the rudiments of tails, with four yellow spots, and two
very small white ones above them. A range of red spots, some of them very
small, runs along the external edges of these wings, reaching from the
upper to the abdominal corners.
_Under Side._ Palpi yellow. Breast black, with yellow and white streaks
and spots on its side and front. Fore legs very short and black, the tips
being white. Anterior wings along the anterior edges of a dark yellowish
grey, the tendons being black; posterior parts of these wings reddish,
verged with black, and having a number of different shaped black spots on
them. Posterior wings black, but along the anterior edges cream-coloured,
with five distinct round black spots on each; the remaining parts of
these wings being beautifully adorned with a variety of different colours
running among each other. Wings dentated.
BIBLIS ARIADNE?
Plate XI. fig. 3, 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. BIBLIS, _Fabr. Latr. God._
BIBLIS ARIADNE? Alis denticulatis, anticarum apice truncato, griseis,
strigis nigris undulatis; subtus rufescenti-fuscis nigro variis, anticis
apice puncto costali albo. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 5 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Nymph.) Ariadne, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 2. 778? _Fabr. Ent.
Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 383.?
Papilio Coryta, _Cramer_, _pl._ 86. E. F.
Papilio Merione, _Cramer_, _pl._ 144. G. H.?
Biblis Ariadne, _Enc. Méth._ ix. 327.
HABITAT: Coromandel, Java (_Enc. Méth._). "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman,
1776" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen grey brown. Wings grey,
and appearing mealy, shaded with blackish brown, particularly the
anterior ones along the external edges, and next the body along the
anterior margin. Posterior ones also strongly shaded along the external
edges.
_Under Side._ Palpi rather long, and dark brown, almost black. Breast,
legs, and abdomen dark brown. Wings dark reddish brown, faintly shaded
with streaks and marks of a darker brown, having two small white spots at
the anterior edges of the anterior wings near the tips. Wings dentated.
Drury refers this insect to the Linnæan Ariadne, which is from Java. It is
therefore with doubt that I give it the preceding synonyms, especially as
Lepidopterists have neglected to cite Drury's figures.
{15}PLATE XII.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS ELEUS.
Plate XII. fig. 1, 2.
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