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._ Breast and legs red-brown; the two fore legs having two
cream-coloured spots on the fore joints. Abdomen red-brown, and cream
intermixed. Wings, next the body, cream-coloured, but towards their
extremities red-brown, more strongly marked than on the upper side.
Margins of the wings entire.
ARCTIA? MENEA.
Plate III. fig. 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Arctiidæ, _Stephens_.
GENUS. ARCTIA? _Schrank_. Callimorpha, _Latr._? Phalæna (Noctua),
_Drury_.
ARCTIA? MENEA. Flava, alis anticis basi, fasciâ latâ mediâ apiceque
margineque postico posticarum nigris. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Menea, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
HABITAT: Brazil.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform and black. Head, thorax, and abdomen
yellow. Wings yellow and black. Anterior having two round black spots at
the shoulders, and two long ones at the tips. Posterior having a broad
black border, beginning at the abdominal corners and running round the
wings, crossing the fore wings and ending at the anterior edges.
_Under Side._ Palpi and tongue black. Legs black. Breast and abdomen
yellow. Wings coloured as on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire.
CALLIMORPHA? MOPSA.
Plate III. fig. 3.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Nocturna. FAMILY: Arctiidæ, _Steph._
GENUS. CALLIMORPHA? _Latr._ Phalæna (Noctua), _Drury_.
CALLIMORPHA? MOPSA. Alis anticis fuscis fasciâ rectâ subapicali; posticis
sanguineis, basi, fasciâ mediâ undatâ margineque nigris. (Expans. Alar. 1
unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Phalæna (Noctua) Mopsa, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 2.
HABITAT: Madras.
_Upper Side._ Antennæ filiform and black. Thorax and abdomen chocolate,
the latter edged with red. Anterior wings entirely of a dun chocolate
colour, having a lemon-coloured streak crossing them from the lower
corners to near the middle of the anterior edges. Posterior wings next
the body almost {5}black; the remainder carmine, with a waved black line
crossing them from the upper to the abdominal corners.
_Under Side._ Palpi grey. Breast red, with two black spots on each side.
Legs grey. Wings coloured as on the upper side; the red colour on the
inferior ones reaching to the body. Margins of the wings entire.
PLATE IV.
[Illustration]
VANESSA ANACARDII.
Plate IV. fig. 1, 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains_.
GENUS. VANESSA, _Fabricius_, _Latr. God._ Hamadryades, _Hübn._ Papilio
(Nymph. Gemmat.) _Drury_. (Dan. Cand.) _Linn._
VANESSA ANACARDII. Alis subdentatis; suprà margaritaceis extimumque
versùs nigro punctatis, anticis falcatis, posticis extùs caudatis
ocelloque ad angulum ani notatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Anacardii, _Linn. Syst. Nat._ 11. 758. _No._
74.? _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ 1. _p._ 183. 567.?
Papilio (Nymph. Gemm.) Parrhasius, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3.
Papilio Æthiops, _Pal. Beauv. Lep._ _pl._ 3. _fig._ 1. 2.
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