ERYCINA MENETAS. 



Plate VIII. fig. 3. 



Ordek : Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family : Lycienidae? S<ey)A. 



Genus. Erycina, Fabr. Latr. God. Papilio (Dan. Fesl.), Drury. 



Erycina Men ETAS. Alis chermesinis, Umbo tenuissimo nigro, margine antico et extPruo anticarum latiori, 

 flavoque maculate, posticis triangularibus. (Expans. Alar. 1 imc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Pleb. urb.) Menetas, Drury, App. vol. 3. (1783.) 



Hcsperia R. Tacitus, Fabr. But. Si/st. 111. 1. p. 308. 108. (1793.) 

 Erycina Tacitus, JEnc. M6th. ix. p. 688. Donovan Nat. Reposit. 4. 134. 



HABiT.iT: " Brazil, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" {Drurtfs MSS.). Surinam (Fabricixis). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Front of the head yellow. Thorax black, with two yellow streaks 

 at the base of the wings. Abdomen dark brown. Half of the superior wings black, beginning at the 

 shoulders, and running to the external edges, on which are seven cream-coloured spots variously shaped. 

 The other half of these wings is scarlet, without any marks. Posterior wings entirely scarlet, edged 

 with black. 



Under Side. Palpi cream-coloured. Breast and abdomen light yellow. Legs black, but under- 

 neath pale yellow. Wings coloured as on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire. 



Mr. Donovan has lately published figures of the upper and under side of this butterflv 

 (which closely resemble each other) in his Naturalist's Repository. These figures do not 

 however represent the peculiar character of the posterior pair of wings, neither is the author 

 correct in his chronological account of this species, as Drury's account and figure were 

 published ten years previous to the Entomologia Systematica, in which work alone of 

 Fabricius is the species mentioned. I have consequently retained the specific designation 

 imposed by Drury, and adopted by the authors of the Encyclopedia Methodique. 



PAPILIO ASCANIUS. 



Plate IX. fig. 1. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionidae, Leach. 



Genus. Pxfilio, Aiict. Papilio (Equit.Troj.), ii«n. 



Papilio Ascanius. Alis nigris, fascia communi alba, posticarum rubro iiiquinat:i ; his caudatis, mactilis 

 marginalibus chermesinis. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc.) 



Syn. Papilio .\scaiiius, Cramer, pi. M.fig. A. Fabricin.i Spec. Ins. torn. 2. ;). 2. No. 6. Eiit. Syst. 111. 1.;). 

 3. No. 8. Enc. MHli. ix.;;. 73. BoUdia-al Hist. Nat. Lepid. 1. 306. 141. 



Habitat : Brazil. " Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 177.5" (Drury's MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the latter tinged with orange. 

 Anterior wings sootty black, having a broad white bar rising near the middle of the anterior edges, 

 which crossing them and the anterior ones, meets just below the abdomen. These wings are furnished 

 with two tails, and scolloped, the scollops being white. All the lower part of these wings is of a fine 

 deep black, whereon are placed five red streaks between the tendons, running along the external edges. 

 This black margin is separated from the white bar before mentioned by a carmine red one, and the 

 space between the white bar and the shoulders is of a soot black. 



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