36 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Papilio valens, Fabricius, Mant. Ins. ii. p. 67, no. 644 (1787). 

 Polyommatus valens, Godart, Enc. Mdth. ix. p. 644, no. 100 



(1823); Perty, Delectus Anim. Artie, p. 153, pi. 30, 



figs. 3, 36(1834?). 



This is a small South American Butterfly, which was first 

 described from Surinam ; it measures about an inch across the 

 wings, which are brown above, and yellowish, spotted with red 

 and golden-green beneath. There is a white spot in the middle 

 of the fore-wings above in the male. 



ANTEROS ACH^EUS. 

 (Plate XLIII. Figs, 3, 4.) 



Papilio achczus, Stoll, in Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 352, figs. G, 

 H (1781) ; Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 41, fig. 4 (1800). 



Polyommatus adieus, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 644, no. 99 

 (1823). 



This Butterfly, which expands an inch and a half across the 

 wings, is found in Surinam and the Amazon district. The 

 upper side is brown, with two yellow oval spots on the fore- 

 wings, and two transverse curved streaks of the same colour on 

 the hind-wings, and at the anal angle a ferruginous spot. The 

 under side is yellow, with numerous ferruginous patches, each of 

 which is ornamented with several small spots of golden-yellow; 

 the hind-margin has a continuous ferruginous band bearing a 

 series of golden-yellow elongated spots. The body is brown 

 above and yellowish beneath. 



It will be noticed that both the above species were classed 

 by Godart with the Lyccenidce. 



The genus Ernests, Fabricius, includes dull-coloured species, 

 with more or less pointed brown, or reddish-brown wings, with 



