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 black. Thorax greenish. Abdomen white, spotted on
the upper part with black. Basal half of the wings ash-coloured, and
bordered with deep red-brown. Anterior wings having a row of six orange
spots along the external edges, and two oval ones near the middle of the
anterior edges; two black spots, shaped like the beards of arrows, are
situated in the centre. Posterior wings angulated and furnished with two
short tails, having a row of five black spots running parallel with the
external edges. Wings not indented.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, and legs buff-coloured. Abdomen white. Wings
next the body dark ash-coloured, but along the tips and external edges
darker. A narrow line of a brown colour rises from the posterior edges of
the anterior wings, and, bending towards the tips, is lost in the general
colour of that part of the wings. A row of small faint black spots runs
parallel with the external edges, being situated between them and the
fore-mentioned dark line; the inner divisions of these and the posterior
wings have a number of small black marks, like Hebrew characters,
regularly dispersed on them. Posterior wings with a dark narrow line
rising on the anterior edges, which crosses the wings, meeting below the
abdomen. A small black eye, with a white pupil, is placed near the middle
of the anterior edges, and a row of faint oval dark spots runs parallel
with the external edges, ending at the abdominal corners.
{43}This insect, like the last, flies exceedingly swift, and is observed
sometimes to settle upon human excrement, a peculiar habit which is also
adopted by other species of insects belonging to different orders.
PLATE XXXII.
[Illustration]
PIERIS EUDOXIA.
Plate XXXII. fig. 1, 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach._
GENUS. PIERIS, _Schrank_. Papilio (Dan. Cand.), _Linn. &c._
PIERIS EUDOXIA. Alis rotundatis, anticis diluté fulvis posticis albis;
omnium limbo communi nigro maculato. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Cand.), _Cramer_, _pl._ 213. _fig._ C. _Herbst. tab._
107. _f._ 1. 2. _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._
199. 620. _Boisduval Hist. Nat. Lepid._ 1. 510. _No._ 105.
Papilio (D. C.) Rhodope, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 196. _No._ 609.
_Donovan Nat. Repos._ 3. _pl._ 86.
HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen grey-brown. Anterior
wings dark yellow, shaded along the anterior edges with dark brown; a
black border occupies the tips and external edges of these wings, whereon
is a row of dark yellow spots of an oblong form. Posterior wings entirely
white, with a row of black spots placed along the external edges.
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