106 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



one at each side of the base of the tail, an oblong spot of the same colour marking the anal 

 appendage, all these being adorned individually, at their internal edge, by a delicate streak of 

 greenish silvery irrorations. Body black above covered with a white down underneath : antenna, 

 black with a ferruginous tip, sprinkled with a beautiful snow-white powder underneath to the base 

 of the club, gradually increasing in intensity of tint exteriorly. Tails uniformly bright orange, 

 with a medial nerve of the same colour and a delicate fringe at the sides and tip of a paler tint. 



This remarkable species affords the type of a peculiar subdivision. It has a single tail of excessive length, 

 while the anal appendage is narrow and linear. In these particulars as well as in the outline of the wings it 

 approaches the individuals of the first subgenus, the true Theclee ; the club of its antennae is also slightly 

 attenuated at the extremities, but in its markings it greatly resembles the species arranged in the third 

 subdivision of AmUypodia, particularly Apidanus and Eumolphus. Some uncertainty therefore remains as 

 to its true situation in the series and many intermediate forms are wanting to complete a regular succession 

 of affinities. 



•f-|-|-|-f Caudis duabus mediocribus mbcequalibus, dente marginali conspicuo : appendiculo anali 

 rotundato prodncto. 



37. Amblypodia Vulcanus. AIcb supra fuscce cano Jimbriata maris violacecB subnitentes ; anticce 

 striolis quatuar abbreviatis incequalibus undulatis fulvis, posticce plagd anali fulvd ocellis 

 duobus atris notatd, interiore lunula argentecs subjecto : subtus sidphurece, fasciis latis fulvis, 

 seorsum strigd argented mediand interruptd ornatis linedque nigra subundidatd limbatis ; 

 fascicB anticarum sex, duabus apicalibus completis margini parallelis exteriore inornatd, 

 tertid subdimidiatd, quartd completd in area costali strigd abbreviatd auctd, indeque extrorsum 

 bifida, quintd subdimidiatd in area anali abruptd, sextd basilari obliqud minima ; posticce fasciis 

 sex, duabus marginalibus, quarum exteriore interruptd, secundd completd arcuatim ad marginem 

 interiorem productd, tertid dimidiatd cum secunda ad medium juncta, quartd et quint. i com- 

 pletis in regione anali subito inflexis, sextd angustd basilari corpori contigud ; regions anali 

 fulvd punctis duobus ocellaribus aterrimis fretd. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.) 



Papilio P. R. Vulcanus. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 66. No. 622. 



Papilio Etolus. Cram. pi. 208. fig. E.F. 



Polyommatus Vulcanus. MM. Latr. et Godt. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 644. 



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



Hospitatur in Musseo Dom. Banks. 



38. Amblypodia Lohita. Alee supra sordidi fuscce canescenti-nebuloses, cano fimbriate, maris 

 saturatiores ; anticce e basi ad medium, posticce pagind totd violaceo-micantes ; foeminffi fasciis 

 pagince inferioris obsolete' strigosce ; posticce insuper plagd anali triangulari fulvd, lunulis 

 duabus atris, intus argenteo-irroratis fretce ; lunula interiore maj'ore subocellari, ap- 

 pendiculo ipso impositd : subtus flavce, fasciis fulvis, in mare puniceis, margins 

 simplicibus, singulis strigd median! argented continud vel parum interruptd ornatis; 

 anticce fasciis septem, duabm marginalibus completis, exteriore inornatd, tertid et quartd 

 abbreviatis pone discum confluentibus, quintd completd angulum analem versus tendente, sextd 

 dimidiatd taenia fused areas analis dilutioris terminatd, septimd basali minimd; posticce 

 fasciis sex, duabus exterioribus margini parallelis, secundd completd versus marginem inte- 

 riorem 



