6 



spots and marks ; two black ones being situated next the abdominal corners, and sparkling with small 

 sapphire-coloured specks placed thereon, being scarcely discernible. All the wings are entire. 



POLYOMMATUS ISIS. 



Plate III. flg. 4, 5. 



Obder : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurua. Family : LycaenidjE, Leach. 



Genus. Polyommatcs, iaic. ^ Gorf. Hesperia (rur.), J'aic. Argus p. Scop. 



POLYOMMATUS Isis. Alis supi'a violaceo-ecerulescentibus, ciiseo anticarum macula, posticarum fasciil albis ; subtus 

 albis ; posticis fasciis tluabus repandis, et macularum serie nigris, harum duabus interuis argentatis $ . 

 (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. PapUio (Dan. Fpstiv.) Isis, Drury, App. vol. 1. 



Hesperia Isarclius, Fabr. Ent. Stjst. 111. 1. p. 316. 198. Herbst. Pap. 320./. 8, 9. £nc. Mith. ix.p. 

 679. No. 194. (Pol. Isarcbus.) 



Papilio Caiiiillus, Cramer, pi. 300. fg. A. B. 

 Habitat: Sierra Leone ('Z))-M»'i/j. "America, Dom. Drury'' (faiW«!(s). Timor (Eiic. Mfth.). 



Upper Side. Head, black. Thorax and abdomen dark blue. Anterior wings fine violet, a little 

 inclining to purple ; round the external edge runs a small narrow black line. Cilia white and black. 

 On the middle of these wings is a white patch, with two small faint dark spots on its upper side. Pos- 

 terior wings violet-coloured, with the same narrow black line running along the external edges as on the 

 anterior. An irregular white bar crosses these wings from the anterior to the abdominal edges, beginning 

 near the upper corner and ending near the extremity of the body. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, and sides white. Legs black. Abdomen white. Anterior wings white, 

 with some dark browai markings running along the anterior and external edges, whereon are some 

 white streaks and patches. Posterior wings white, whereof one-third next the external edges is dark 

 brown, but next the cilia is whitish ; whereon are six small round brown spots, two of which, next the 

 abdominal corners, sparkle with blue like a sapphire ; the upper parts of these wings, next the shoulders, 

 have a brown double streak on each. All the wings are entire. 



PAPILIO NIREUS. 



Plate IV. fig. 1,2. 



Order . Lepidoptera. Section : Dim'na. Family : Papiliouidae, Leach. 

 Genus. Papilio, Linn. §-e. (Section Equit. Acbiv.) 



Papilio Nireus. Alis dentatis, nigris, fascia communi maculisque Tiridibus ; posticis breviter caudatis ; his 



subtus fascia subargente^, marginal!, nervis divisa. (Expans. Alar. unc. 4. lln. 8.) 

 Syn. Papilio Nireus, Linn. Sijst. Nat. 2. ;a 760. No. 28. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. I. ;;. 36. No. 106. God. Enc. 



M6th.ix.p.i%.No-eT. Cra»«. 187. A. B.^- 378. F. G. Herbst. Pap. tab. S7.f. 1.2. Bouduval. Hist. 



Nat.Lepid. 1. 224. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone (Drury). Coast of Guinea, CafTraria, Madagascar (Bdv.). India (Linn. ^- Fabr.). 



Upper Side. Head, thorax, and abdomen velvety black. Wings fine deep black ; with two narrow 

 bars of a beautiful Saxon or blueish green colour, which begin about the middle of the anterior edges 

 of the anterior wings, and crossing both them and the posterior, meet at the abdominal edges near the 



