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Under Side. Palpi reddish. Tongue and legs black. Breast black, with red spots on the sides. 

 Abdomen black, vnth the sides and anus red. Wings on this side coloured as on the upper side, but 

 rather more brilHant. 



ERYCINA AMPYX. 



Plate IX. fig. 2, 3. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: LyetEuidx'. Steph. 

 Genus. Erycisa, Fahr.Latr. God. Papilio (Dan. Fest.), i*™?-;/. 



Erycina Ampy'x. Alis subintegris supra fuscis, anticarum maculis duabus flavis ; subtus omnibus flavis, maeulis 

 ferrugineis auro-pupillatis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc.9 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (PI. urb.) Ampyx, Drury, App. vol. 3. 



Eryeina Ampyx, Latr. ^ God. Enc. MHh. ix. p. 586. No. 105. 



Habitat : Brazil. " Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" {Drury's MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae white, brown at their extremities. Thorax, abdomen, and wings brown ; 

 the anterior wings having two oval straw-coloured spots placed near the middle, and the anterior edges 

 of the posterior ones streaked with the same colour. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, legs, and abdomen straw-coloured. Wings straw-coloured, being 

 spotted and streaked with red brown, each of these markings appearing to have a gold spot or streak in 

 its centre, fonning a very beautiful and singular appearance. Margins of the anterior wings entire, but 

 of the posterior ones a little dentated. 



PAPILIO AGAVUS. 



Plate IX. fig. 4. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionida^, Z.e«c/). 



Genus. Papilio, Auct. Papilio (Equit. Troj.), JLiiin. 



Papilio Agavus. Alis atris coneoloribus ; anticis fascia, posticis disco, albidis ; his caudatis luuulis inarginalibiis 

 angulnque auali ebermesinis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 6 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Eq. Acliiv.) Agavus, Drury, App. ivl. 3. Stoll. Suppl. Cram. pi. 3'J. 1. 1. A. Lutr. J- GuU, 

 Enc. Mith. ix. p. 73. Boisd. Hist. Nat. Lep. 1. p. 306. 142. 

 Papilio Lysander? Fnhr. Enf. Si/si. lU.l.p.O 



H.ABITAT : Brazil. 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Neck red. Thorax, abdomen, and wings black. A narrow straw- 

 coloured bar runs from the anterior edges of the superior ones near the tips, and, crossing the posterior 

 edges, terminates in a large spot of the same colour on the posterior wings, situated near the shoidders. 

 Posterior wings furnished with two short and two longer tails, and having two large carmine-coloured 

 spots placed near the abdominal corners, and three others, that are smaller, along the external edges. 



Under Side. Palpi and tongue black. Breast the same, the sides having streaks of red on them. 

 Abdomen black, and the sides streaked with red. Wings nearly the same colour as on the upper 

 side ; the red spots on the posterior ones being more numerous, and those at the abdominal corners 

 not so large. 



