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Middle of the wing with a rather broad bar of a fine deep chocolate colour, beginning at the anterior 

 edge and ending at the abdominal groove ; the upper side of the bar next the body being russet. Lower 

 part of the wing, next the external edge, of a colour between russet and chocolate, with three small 

 white spots near the upper corner. The two black eyes are distinct on this side, with narrow blue irides. 

 The wings are a little dentated. 



Drur}''s figure represents an individual in which the posterior wings have no ap- 

 pearance of the short tail, which the species ordinarily exhibits. It may, perhaps, originate 

 in the figure being taken from a mutilated specimen. The Papilio Morna of Fabricius, 

 appears nearly allied to this insect. 



THECLA FAUNUS 5. 



Plate I. fig. 4, 5. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diunia. Family : LyetEnida;, Leach. 



Genus. Thecla, Fabr. Polyommatus p. Latr. Hesperia p. Fahr. olim. Papilio (Pleb. ruric.) Dniry. 



Thecla Faunus. Alls supra fuscescenti-violaceis apiee at.ro, subtus albis strigil commuui media fulva; posticis 

 tricaudatis, linea niarginali nigricante maculisque duabus iiigro viridique mLxtis. (Expans. Alar. I imc. 

 3 lin.) 



S YN. 5 Papilio (Pleb. ruric.) Faunus, Drury, App. vol. 2. Cramer, pi. 39. B. C. <? . 96. F. G. J . Fabr. Ent. 



Syst.\n.l.p.\G\.No.U. (HesperiaF.) Encycl. MHh.ix. p. Q\».\. (Polyommatus F.) 

 $ Hesperia R. Hesiodus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1. p. 260. 8. Pal. Bauv. Ins. d'Afr. et d'Amer. Lep. 



P/. 7./.5. 6.7. ^. $. 

 Habitat : Sierra Leone (Fabr.). Gold Coast (Drury). 



Upper Side. Antennae ringed with white and black. Anterior wings greyish brown, without mark- 

 ings. Posterior wings of the same grejdsh brown. Cilia white. A little above the abdominal corners 

 are four white spots, placed close together ; the two inner ones being smallest. Each of these wings is 

 furnished with three tails, the upper parts of which are black, the other parts white ; the middle one 

 being almost as long as the wing, the other two are about half that length. 



Under Side. Palpi, head, and breast white. Legs white and brown. Wings fine silvery white A 

 small, narrow, orange-coloured line begins at the middle of the anterior edge of the fore wings : which, 

 crossing them and the hind ones, runs almost to the abdominal corner, where it suddenly turns' back and 

 ends at the abdominal groove. Near this part are two small black spots, one placed between the two 

 outer tails, and the other on the abdominal edge. 



Fabricius gives the sexes of this insect as distinct species, under the names cited above, 

 stating India to be the habitat of Hesiodus (or the male). Paliscc de Bauvois has, how- 

 ever, satisfactorily cleared up the error, by figuring both sexes from Africa. The male 

 has the disc of the wings, on the upper side, of a rich blue colour. 



