﻿LYC^ENID^ 
  (Oriental). 
  

  

  PLATE 
  YI. 
  

  

  GENUS 
  WAIGEUM.— 
  I. 
  

  

  IVaiijcuin, 
  Staudinger, 
  "Deutsche 
  Entomologische 
  Zeitsehrift 
  : 
  'Iris' 
  

   (Dresden)," 
  VIII., 
  p. 
  154 
  (1895). 
  

  

  Anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  the 
  first 
  subcostal 
  nervule 
  entirely 
  separated 
  from 
  the 
  

   costal 
  nervure, 
  and 
  the 
  fourth 
  subcostal 
  nervule 
  emitted 
  much 
  higher 
  up 
  the 
  third 
  

   than 
  in 
  typical 
  llnjumotin, 
  and 
  consequently 
  much 
  shorter. 
  Anterior 
  wings 
  

   triangular, 
  especially 
  in 
  the 
  male, 
  and 
  pointed 
  at 
  the 
  tips, 
  instead 
  of 
  rounded 
  ; 
  

   posterior 
  wings 
  more 
  rounded 
  than 
  in 
  Thjwmti^. 
  Palpi 
  very 
  short 
  ; 
  legs 
  short 
  

   and 
  thick 
  ; 
  hind 
  tarsi 
  scarcely 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  tibiae. 
  Antennte 
  half 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  

   the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  with 
  a 
  long 
  fusiform 
  club. 
  

  

  On 
  the 
  underside 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  wings, 
  the 
  metallic 
  subcostal 
  bar 
  is 
  usually 
  

   double, 
  being 
  divided 
  longitudinally 
  by 
  a 
  broad 
  dark 
  band. 
  

  

  I.— 
  WAIGEUM 
  THAUMA. 
  $. 
  Figs. 
  1, 
  2. 
  ?. 
  Fig. 
  3. 
  

  

  Wa'ujt'um 
  Tliauina, 
  Staudinger, 
  "Deutsche 
  Entomologische 
  Zeitsehrift: 
  

   ' 
  Iris 
  ' 
  (Dresden)," 
  VIII., 
  p. 
  154 
  (1895). 
  

  

  Exp. 
  lj-l| 
  inches. 
  

  

  3fale. 
  Upperside 
  with 
  the 
  costal 
  area 
  of 
  the 
  anterior 
  wings, 
  and 
  the 
  hind 
  

   margins 
  of 
  all 
  the 
  wings 
  broadly 
  black 
  ; 
  the 
  basal 
  and 
  central 
  portions 
  bright 
  

   l)lue, 
  changing 
  into 
  purple 
  in 
  certain 
  lights, 
  and 
  mixed 
  with 
  a 
  few 
  green 
  scales 
  ; 
  

   anterior 
  wings 
  with 
  an 
  oblique 
  white 
  l^and 
  on 
  the 
  disc, 
  extending 
  from 
  the 
  

   ujiper 
  median 
  nervule 
  to 
  a 
  little 
  below 
  the 
  submedian 
  nervure, 
  the 
  inner 
  margin 
  

   being 
  narrowly 
  edged 
  with 
  blue. 
  It 
  is 
  continued 
  on 
  the 
  posterior 
  wings, 
  wliere 
  

  

  VOL. 
  II., 
  JANUAKY, 
  1896. 
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