Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3Drury, Dru
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Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3
Drury, Dru
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_Under Side._ Palpi, legs, breast, and abdomen white. Anterior wings
tinged with yellow next the body, the white bar being the same on this
side as on the upper; the black colour on this side partaking more of a
brown, and at the tips having a white patch instead of the two spots seen
on the upper side. Posterior wings marked as on the upper side. Margins
of the wings entire.
PLATE XXXIII.
[Illustration]
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) EUDOXUS.
Plate XXXIII. fig. 1, 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera, _Linn._ SECTION: Diurna, _Latr._ FAMILY: Nymphalidæ,
_Swains._
GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), _Drury_. (SUBGENUS:
Charaxes, _Boisduval_.)
NYMPHALIS (CHARAXES) EUDOXUS. Alis supra fasciâ mediâ maculisque
marginalibus fulvis, subtùs ad basin ferrugineis annulis argenteis;
posticis tantùm fasciâ albâ. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Equ. Ach.) Eudoxus, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
Papilio (N.) Eudoxus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 65. _No._ 203.
_Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 352. _No._ 6.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Eyes, head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown.
Anterior wings dark chocolate, red-brown at the base; a row of brown
orange-coloured spots is placed on the external edges of these wings,
those next the tips being smallest; a brown-orange bar also rises on the
anterior edges near the tips, and crossing these and the posterior wings
meets at the extremity of the abdomen, increasing in width as it
approaches the abdominal corners. Posterior wings likewise dark
chocolate, but next the body red-brown. Each of them is furnished with
two tails, and has an indented line of brown-orange running along the
external edges, from the upper to the abdominal corners.
_Under Side._ Palpi and breast orange. Feet ash colour. Sides and abdomen
red-brown. One half of the superior wings next the body is chocolate, but
next the external edges brown-orange, with a large black streak at the
lower corners, and three others of different shapes in the middle of the
wings; {45}the chocolate division is adorned with a number of black
streaks and marks, margined with fine silver white. Posterior wings
chocolate, with an indented line of brown-orange placed along the
external edges, verged at top with black; these wings are marked with a
number of silvery white lines and streaks, placed against each other in
different directions. Two small white spots, joined together, are placed
on a black-ground at the abdominal corners.
HESPERIA HELOPS.
Plate XXXIII. fig. 2, 3.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Hesperiidæ, _Steph._
GENUS. HESPERIA, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Papilio (Pleb. Urb.), _Linn. Drury,
&c._
HESPERIA HELOPS. Alis anticis fuscis maculis hyalinis (tribus minutis)
subapicalibus; posticis suprà flavis, fasciâ submarginali atrâ arcuatâ,
subtùs fuscis disco albo. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 2 lin.)
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