94, DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



nent ; Jmider wings narrow and lengthened, the ground colour being uniformly diffused over the 

 " wliole surface to a very narrow black marginal thread ; anal appendages tipt extei-nally wth black, 

 and surrounded, within the brown fringe, by a white thread extending also towards the tail ; in 

 the female the wings are saturated testaceous with a slight cupreous lustre, the colour being 

 uniformly diffused over the surface, increasing in strength towards the margins, but without 

 defined borders : underneath the surface is satin-gray, with a faint glaucous cast, vaiying in 

 intensity of tint in different individuals ; on the disk of each wing stands a short oblong double 

 streak consisting of two parallel grayish brown litura witli a medial and two lateral narrow white 

 lines; between this and the posterior margin a more saturated brown band pervades both pair, 

 being nearly regular until it reaches the anal region, where, after a sudden flexure, it stretches 

 directly across towards the internal margin, being bordered with a white striga exteriorly in the 

 anterior and on both sides in the posterior pair, the tint becoming more intense as the band 

 approaches the anal region, having a bright silvery lustre in well preserved specimens ; the 

 extreme anal angle is ornamented with two regularly round deep black ocellate spots, the exte- 

 rior one being bordered internally with a brilliant orange lunule, the interior one, somewhat 

 larger in size, covering the anal appendage, and being surrounded by a delicate white ring 

 ciliated posteriorly ; the intermediate space is occupied by a roundish group of greenish silvery 

 atoms, bedded on a blackish patch, which sends off obliquely a narrow streak towards the inner 

 margin. The body is testaceous brown above, gray underneath, and covered on both sides with 

 delicate silky hairs ; the antenna are annulated, the club has a ferruginous tip, and the tails are 

 black with a whitish extremity. 



Our museum contains eleven specimens, of which five are females. 



27. Thecla Xenophon. Ala supra maris fulvce in sangiiineum vergentes, limhis omnibus fuscis, 

 anticarum latissimis, limbo exteriore singularum ad medium cum angulo abrvpto dilatato; foeminfe 

 pagind omni unicohres brunnem : subtus canescenti-fusca nitore cupreo-ferrugineo lavatcB, liturd 

 brevi transversa simplici albicante fasco margindta in disco, fasciuque itisigni fuscescente com- 

 pletd pone medium extus albo marginatd, in regione anali saturatiore, hie utrinque striga argenteo- 

 nitente limbatd et flexuosim ad marginem interior em ductd ; ocellis analibus duobus, altera exteriore 

 mirwre ovato transverso cceco, in plagd saturatiore fascia marginalis nidulante, absque iride 

 distinctd, aitero appendiculo anali ipso imposito maxima, dimidio exteriore strigd albd ad ocel- 

 lum exteriorem productd et denique fimbrid nigrd circumscripta ; tcenid ocellis intermedia fused 

 transversa strigdque brevi obliqud angulo anali paratleld, albo irroratis. (Exp, alar. 1 unc. 2- 

 3 lin.) 



Plate iv. fig. 2, Larva ; fig. 2, a. Chrysalis. 



Hesperia R. Xenophon. Fab. Ent. Syst. em. tom. 3. pars. 1. p. 272. No. 47. 



Papilio Melampus. Cram. pi. 362. fig, G, H. (the male.)' 



Papilio Xenophon. Donov. Ind. Ins. (with a figure.) 



Polymnmatus Xenophon. MM. Latr. and Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 640. 



Wings above, in the 7nale, deep fulvous inclining to red, the anterior having broad black borders on 

 all the margins, the posterior very narrow black marginal threads exteriorly and posteriorly, and 

 the nervures,. in general, of the same colour ; near the middle the exterior border of both pair has 

 a sudden angular projection, from which the borders continue broader to the base ; in the female 



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