LEPTOCIRCIN^E. 309 



Lamproptera curius. Gray, in Griffith's Animal Kingdom, xv. 



pi. 102, fig. 4 (1832). 

 Leptocircus curlus, Swainson, Zool. 111. Ins. ii. pi. 106 (1833); 



Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. p. 381, pi. 7, fig. i ; pi. 



17, fig. i (1836). 

 Leptocircus meges, Doubleday, Zoologist, i. pp. 1 10, 1 1 1, cum. fig. 



(1843) ; Distant, Rhop. Malay, p. 385, pi. 32, fig. 3 (1886). 

 Leptocircus virescenS) Butler, Cat. Lep. Fabr. p. 259 (1870). 



This species measures rather less than two inches across the 

 wings, which are black. The fore-wings are hyaline on the 

 outer half, traversed by the black nervures, and a green band 

 runs straight from the costa of the fore-wings, at about one- 

 third of their length, to the middle of the hind-wings. 



The earliest known species of the genus, L. curius (Fabr.) is 

 smaller, with shorter tails, and a white transverse band instead 

 of a green one ; it inhabits Java and Siam. 



With this genus we conclude our second volume, and our 

 account of the more typical Butterflies. Our next volume will 

 commence with the Hesperiidcz, or Skippers, which may be 

 regarded as intermediate between Butterflies and Moths ; fol- 

 lowed by an account of those families of Moths which appear 

 to be most nearly allied to the Butterflies. 



