ISMENE. PH AREAS. 



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ISMENE. 



1. Ism. Iphis Drury, III. ii. 15. f. 34. (Papilio I.). 



Papilio Pliidias Cramer, Paj). pi. 9,ii. f. A. B. (nee Lin- 



nseus). 

 Papilio Jupiter Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 87. ; Lair. Enc. 



M. IX. p. 733. 

 M'estern Tropical Africa, China ?, Bengal ? 



2. Ism. Chalybe Westw. MS. (Ismene Ch.); Doubl. Westw. if Hewits. 



Gen. D. Lep. pi. 79- f. 2. 

 Papilio Bixa; Liiinaus, Sy.'it. Nat. f. ii. p. 795. ? ; Clerck, Icon. 

 pi. 42. f. 7, 8. ; Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 89. ? ; Latreille, 

 Enc. M. IX. 740. ? Donovan, Nat. liepos. pi. l6.3. (but 

 not the P. Bixir of Merian, Surinam, t. 44. 

 Guinea (not America). Mus. Boisduval, &c. 



3. Is.ii. CEdipodka Swainsoti Zool. III. 1st series, i. pi. I6. (ni. and f.) 



(Ismene ffi.). 

 Java. 



4. Ism. Benjaminii Guerin-Menei\ in Dekssert, Souv. Ind. Ent. p. 79. 



pi. 22. f. 2, 2(7. (Thymele B.). 

 Hesperia Xantho|iogon Kollar in Huyel's Reise n. Kaschmir, 

 App. p. 453. pi. 18. f. 1,2. 

 Neelgherries, Himalaya. 



5. Is.M. Fi.oRESTAN Cramer, Pap. pi. 391. f. E. F. (Papilio F.); Boisduval, 



Faune dc Madag. p. 6l. (Thymele F.). 

 Madagascar, Eastern Africa. 



6. Is.ii. Taminatus Iliibner, Zutrage, f. 193, 194. (Coeliades T.). 

 Surinam. 



7- Ism. Pisistratus Fabricius, Ent. Syst. in. pt. 1. p. 345. (Hesperia P.) ; 

 Jones, Icones, vi. t. 26. f. 1.; (Donovan's Drawings in 

 Biht. Hope, Oxford); Latr. Enc. M. ix. p. 589. and 76l. 

 America, Fabricius (.'), (Guinea?). 



8. Isji. Ratek Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madag. p. Gl. pi. 9. f. 1. 



(Thymele R.); ditto in Delegorgue, Voy. S. Afr. p. 594. 

 Madagascar, Port Natal. 



9. Ism. Raman-atek Boisduval, Faune Ent. de Madagascar, p. 62. pi. 9. 



f. 3. (Thymele R.). 

 Isle of Bourbon, Madagascar. 



10. Ism. V ESP Asivs Fabricius, Ent. Syst. 111. pt. l.p. 334. (Hesperia V.); 



Jones, Icon. vi. pi. 86. f. 1.; Donovan's Drawings in 

 Bibl. Hope, Oxford. 

 " In Indiis " (Fabricius). 



11. Ism. Ladon Cramer, Pap. pi. 284. f. G. (Papilio L.) ; Latr. Enc. M. 



IX. p. 749. ; var. ? 

 Coromandel Coast, Java. 



12. IsM. Helius Fabricius, Mant. Ins. 11. p. 85. (Papilio H.); Cramer, 



Pap. pi. 198. f. B.; Latr. Enc BI. ix. p. 76I. 

 Surinam. 



Genus VI. PHAREAS. 



Phareas Westwood. 



Peleus Swainson. 



Brontiades, Entheus, Pithonides, and Pakamimus Hiibner. 



P>ODY moderately robust. Head broad, with the hibial palpi broad, slightly porrected ; the hairs of the inside of the 

 middle joint extending farthest, so as to cause the palpi to appear as if obliquely truncated. Terminal joint 

 small, or moderately elongated. 

 AntenncB long, slender, with the club long, gradually formed, not robust, well arched, not hooked ; the extremity 

 gradually attenuated, and very acute, and finely setose along the front margin. 

 Wings horizontally divaricated when at rest. Fore Wings moderately elongated ; arched along the fore margin. The 

 apical angle regularly convex. 

 Hind Wings rounded, entire (in Ph. Coeleste the hind wings are more elongated), with the space occupied by the 

 extremity of the branches of the median vein elongated and dilated into a large rounded lobe, and the outer 



margin slightly waved. 



Legs long, slender. Tibia; of the hind legs destitute of the middle spurs. 



The species of which I hnve fi)rnnpd this genus are generally elegantly varied in their colours, and are distinguished by the elongate 



slender arched club of the antenna;, and especially by the structure of the hind tibite, which offers an exception to the characters of 



the family as above stated. The beautiful .species represented in Plate LXX VIII. f. 4. differs from the more typical P. Gentius, 



Peleus, &c., in the semipellucid sjjots of the foie wings, and in the under side of the hind wings offering a remarkable contrast to the 



August I. 1852. G S 



