LEPTOCIRCIN.1^. 



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Lamproptera curins, Gray, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, xv. 



pi. 102, fig. 4 (1832). 

 Lepiocircus ciirius^ Swainson, Zool. 111. Ins. ii. pi. 106 (1833) ; 



Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Le'pid. i. p. 381, pi. 7, fig. i ; pi. 



17, fig. I (1836). 

 Lepiocircus meges, Doubleday, Zoologist, i. pp. 1 10, 1 1 1, cum. fig. 



(1843); Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 385, pi. 32, fig. 3 (1886). 

 Lepiocircus virescens^ Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. p. 259 (1870). 



This species measures rather less than two inches across the 

 wings, which are black. The fore-wings are hyaline on the 

 outer half, traversed by the black nervures, and a green band 

 runs straight from the costa of the fore-wings, at about one- 

 third of their length, to the middle of the hind-wings. 



The earliest known species of the genus, Z. curius (Fabr.) is 

 smaller, with shorter tails, and a white transverse band instead 

 of a green one ; it inhabits Java and Siam. 



With this genus we conclude our second volume, and our 

 account of the more typical Butterflies. Our next volume will 

 commence with the Hesperiidce^ or Skippers, which may be 

 regarded as intermediate between Butterflies and Moths ; fol- 

 lowed by an account of those families of Moths which appear 

 to be most nearly allied to the Butterflies. 



