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In Mr. Drury's manuscripts I find the insect referred to these two figures is stated 

 to have been obtained from the Duchess of Portland's Museum, and to be an inhabitant 

 of New York. 



NYMPHALIS LAODICE. 



Plate XXVI. fig. 1, 2. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section ; Diurna. Family : NymphalidfE, Swains. 



Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. Papilio (Pleb. rur.) Drury. 



Nymphalis Laodice. Alis supra atro-coenileis, limbo postico serie luuularum coerulescfiiitium ; subtus fa.scia 

 media communi saturatiori, posticis punctis marginalibus albis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Laodice, Drury, App. vol. 3. (1783.) 



PapUio Lycurgus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. \.p. 67. No. 209. Erw. MHh. ix. p. 364. No. 49. 

 Nymphalis Lye, Paul. Beauv. Ins. iVAfr.et d'Amer. Lep.pl. i.f. 2. 



Habitat; Sierra Leone. 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax black. Abdomen dark brown. Wings very dark blue, 

 almost black, the edges being dark brown ; the anterior ones are angulated, and the posterior ones 

 furnished with two short tails. A row of blue crescents, forming a line, runs along the posterior wings 

 near the external edges, extending along part of the anterior ones, which also have two small oval blue 

 spots, almost joined together, placed at the middle of the anterior edges, and one single one near the tips. 



Under Side. Palpi not noticed. Legs brown above, and white beneath. Breast and abdomen 

 dark brown. Wings soft brown, with some irregular and indented bands of a darker colour crossing them, 

 particularly the posterior ones, which have a rather broad one running from the upper to the abdominal 

 comers. These wings have also seven very small white spots placed along the external edges. 



THECLA PHALEROS <?. 



Plate XXVL fig. 3, 4. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section; Diurna. Family; LyceBnidx, Steph. 



Genus. Thecla, Fabr. (Syst. Gloss.) Polyommatus, Latr. God. Hesperia p. Fabr. (olim.) Papihn (PIcb. 



rur.), Drury. 

 Thecla Phaleros. Alis $ violaeeo-coeruleis nitidis, $ albidis apice fusco, subtus albis fasciis transversis 



margineque nigris adangulum ani conjuuctis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Pleb. urb. ) Phaleros, Liim. Sy.<it. Nat. 2. p. 796. No. 272. Enc. MHh. ix. p. 628. (Polyomm. Ph.) 

 Hesperia R. Chiton, Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. 1- p. 262. Donovan Ins. India, 1. pi. 3./. 1. 

 Papilio Silenus, Cram. jtl. 282. E. 

 Papilio Agis, Drury, App. vol. 3. 



Habitat: Brazil ( Drury, in text). " Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1775" (i)r«r(/'sMSS.). Surinam {Eiif. M^th.). 

 India (Linn. Fabr. Donov.). 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen dark blue. Wings blue, without marks. 

 Posterior furnished with four small black tails, the tips of which are white. The abdominal corners are 

 also edged with white. 



Under Side. Palpi long, thin, and black, white at the base, as is the neck. Legs brown above and 

 white beneath. Breast yellow. Abdomen blue. Wings yellow; the anterior having some brown, 



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