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 at the base, but yellow at the tips. Thorax
black. Abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings black, with twelve different
shaped spots, occupying half the wings next the tips; these spots are
principally yellow, (one next the body being orange), and differ very
much in form and size; next the body are two narrow faint reddish
longitudinal streaks. Posterior wings dusky orange, the edges being
bordered with black from the middle of the anterior edges to the
abdominal corners; a square black spot is placed near the upper corners,
and two very small ones by the side of it.
_Under Side._ Palpi black. Breast streaked with white. Abdomen yellow.
Wings less brilliant; {52}but having much the same markings as on the
upper side; the black border on the posterior ones having a row of white
spots thereon, and another row is observable on the edges of the
anterior. Posterior wings dentated.
NYMPHALIS IOLE.
Plate XXXVIII. fig. 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. NYMPHALIS, _Latr._ Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), _Drury_.
NYMPHALIS IOLE. Alis suprà basi fulvis, tunc nigris coeruleo-micantibus,
subtus nitenti-ferrugineis, strigis duabus nigris undulatis, posticis
caudatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Iole, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Stoll Suppl.
Cram._ _pl._ 29. _fig._ 4. 4. D.
Papilio (N) Furcula, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 79. _No._ 246. _Enc.
Méth._ ix. _p._ 360. 36. (Nymphalis F.) _Donovan Nat. Repos._ 5. 151.
HABITAT: "Jamaica" (_Drury_, in text). "Madras, Mr. Skeene, 1772"
(_Drury's_ MSS.).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Eyes, thorax, and abdomen brown. Wings
brown-black, a considerable part of them encircling the body being dark
orange. Posterior wings furnished with two tails, rather lighter than the
other part.
_Under Side._ Palpi, legs, breast, and abdomen cream-coloured. Wings
brown, having a blueish as well as a reddish hue, several waved lines
crossing them from the anterior to the abdominal edges; five small white
spots are placed next the tips, and several small black ones are situated
along the external edges of both wings.
HIPPARCHIA ANDROMEDA.
Plate XXXVIII. fig. 3.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._
GENUS. HIPPARCHIA, _Fabr._ Satyrus, _Latr. God._ Papilio (Helic. Parn.),
_Drury_.
HIPPARCHIA ANDROMEDA. Alis hyalinis, anticis strigis duabus fuscantibus,
posticis apice chermesinis ocello utrinque unico. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 3
lin.)
SYN. Papilio (P.) Andromeda, _Fabr. Syst. Ent._ 467. _No._ 107. _Ent.
Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 184. _No._ 569.
Papilio (Hel. Parn.) Menander, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Herbst. Pap._
_t._ 84. _fig._ 6.
Papilio Philis, _Cramer_, 387. _fig._ E.
Papilio Pireta, _Cramer_, _pl._ 315. _fig._ A.
HABITAT: Jamaica (_Drury_). Surinam (_Enc. Méth._).
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