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GENUS—PAPILIO. S U B - G E N U S — E U R Y A D E S . Felder.
EURYADES DUPONCHELII $.
(Papilio (Buryades) Eeevii, Westw. in Trans. Ent. Soe. Lond. 1872, p. 103.)
PLATE XXSIT, FIGS. 1, 2.
Alis supra obscure fulvis, subtus pallidioribus, et magis stramineis ; antieis macula subapicali flavescenti ;
margine nigro, incisuris rubrarum marginalibus flavidis ; posticis dimidio externo supra fusco, subtus nigro ;
serie duplici maeularum, alteraque macularum majorum, supra lutearum, subtus straminearum, interposita;
margine sinuato et 1-caudato, incisuris albis.
Expans. alar, antic, une. SJ.
Habitat j Buenos Ayres (J. W. Reeve), Coll. Druce.
Deceived by the assertions of M. Lucas (Annales Soc. Ent. France, tom. viii. p. 91, pi. VIII, 1839,
and ib. 4t b Ser. vol. viii, 1868, p. 5), that the black butterfly with red and yellow spots, figured by him under
the name of P. Huponchelii, was a female, and that a smaller and stiU darker coloured individual was the male,
I was led to describe the female insect, here %m-ed by me^ as a distinct species in the Trans. Ent. Soc.
London, as above referred to, with the suggestion that it might however ultimately be discovered that
M. Lucas had mistaken the sex of his first specimen, and that it might he in reality the male of the
insect now before us. I was led chiefly to this opinion by the analogy between the two insects and the two
sexes of the Australian Unrycus Cressida, the males of which are black, with red and white markings, and the
females semitransparent and more or less brown, with darker brown marks. Moreover the female of M%ryades
Corethrus (a species closely allied to the female insect here figured) possesses anal lobes similar to those of Parnassius
and Eurycus, as stated by Mr. E. Doubleday from information which I had communicated to him (Gen.
Diurn. Lep. i. p. SI) ; and in certain females of the species here figured these anal lobes are greatly developed,
and nearly as long as the whole abdomen : whereas in Mr. Druce's specimen of the female here figured these
lobes are either not yet fully developed, or have been broken oif near the base. The correctness of my supposition
as to the mistakes of M. Lucas, and the sexual relationship between this female insect and the male
P . Dujionchelii of Lucas, has been fully determined by Dr. Burmeister (who, from his residence in Buenos Ayres,
the locaKty of both Ch. Coretjtrus and Bujionclielii, has had fall opportunities of settling the question) in the
Stettiner Entomolog. Zeit. 31 Jahrg. (1870), p, 414, as well as by M. A. Guénée in his 'Notice sur divers
Lépidopitères du Musée de Genève,' where the females of both these species are figured.
F A M I L Y — N Y M P H A L I D ^ .
GENUS—CHARAXES.
SPECIES 1—CHARAXES LYSIANASSA. (Fcem.) Hope MS.
(='Í Ch. Bmieti, Peistbamel, Ann. Soc. Trance, 1850, p. 261, fcem.?)
PLATE XXXI Y, FIGS. 3, 4.
Alis supra castaneo-brunneis, antieis versus basin et ad costam magis castaneis, fascia lata communi flavescenti,
in antieis maculari, in posticis integra, maculiscjue parvis submarginalibus fulvis; posticarum margine
fulvo ; alis subtus albido, fulvo, brunneo et griseo Isete variegatis, posticis fascia pallida media ocellisque duobus
parvis ad angulum analem.
Expans. alar, antic. 3§.
H a b i t a t ; Ashantee. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonia;.
The upper side of the fore wings is of a rich dark brown colour, the basal portion, especially along the
costa, being of a rich dark chestnut, varied by a blackish patch at the extremity of the discoidal cell, which is
thereby separated from two other rich chestnut spots placed obliquely, and two others, at a greater distance,
placed transversely. From nearly the middle of the inner margin arises a broad buff-coloured fascia with
sinuated edges, which soon breaks into oval detached spots of smaller size, extending nearly to the apex, the
last spot of this series being small, subcostal, and placed nearer to the discoidal cell of the wing, the spots
between the branches of the median vein are each composed as it were of two conjoined spots : near the ai)ical
margin is a row of small, nearly rounded, fulvous spots. The hind wings are dark brown, the middle occupied
by a broad bufl>coloured fascia with nearly regular edges ; the margin is broadly fulvous-red, wi th a veiy slender
black marginal line. The two tails of each hind wing are rather long and slender.
On the under side the ground colour of the wings is pale bulf or straw coloured, marked with numerous
rich fulvous-red patches. The discoidal cell in the fore wings is traversed by four of the latter, the third of
which is verjr sinuous, followed by a short fulvous-red bar from the subcostal vein; the wing between the discoidal
cell and the middle of the inner margin is of a purplish tinge, with several dark brown irregular transverse
marks; half way between the middle of the wing and the apical margin is a row of slender fulvousbrown
lunules, followed by a row of large oval-shaped fulvous-red spots, darkest next the margin, from which
they are separated by reversed pale fleshy lunules; next the anal angle is a large compound black spot, with
several patches of pale blue scales on its outer side. The hind wings have a nearly straight black line running
across them near the middle, followed by a pale whitish-bufl" space; the space between the base of the wings
and this line being marked by several irregular fulvous-red fascia;, the outermost being the widest, and joining
the black line, which is angulated close to the anal margin. The broad pale fascia is followed by a row o^f
conjoined fulvous-red lunules, beyond which the wing is varied with alternate límate bars of greenish bufli', fulvous
red, black, pinkish-grey, and fulvous; the anal angle ha^^ng two blue-black dots edged above with white
lunules.
The body above is dark chestnut, with four white dots on the crown of the head; the palpi and under side
of the chest are varied m t h white.
SPECIES 2—CHARAXES ANTICLEA
{Charaxes Cymo, Hope MS.)
PLATE XXXIY, FIG. 5.
Alis supra fuscis, omnibus fascia submediana rufo-fulva, in alis antieis versus costam bifida ; posticis
margine fulvo, linea tenui nigra marginali punctisque duobus parvis albis ad angulum analem.
Expans. alar, antic. 2§.
H a b i t a t ; Sierra Leone. In Mus. Hopeiano Oxonite.
SYN. : (J Papilio Antidea. Drury, 111. iii. t. XXVII, figs. 5, 6.
¥ Papilio Moratiiis. Fabricius, Ent. Syst. iii. pi. I, fig. 64 ; (Jones, Icon. ined. v. t. XVI, figs. 3, 4.)
No figure having hitherto been published of the female of this very rare species, I have thought it advisable
to represent it in the present work, from a fine specimen in the Hopeian Collection.
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