g6 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



, i r .i - „ 1t1 ji,™ ; s mn re saturated, with less of a fulvous shade ; the 



than in Jarbas } the ground colour of the upper surface is more saturdu: , „„ <lf „„;„ r 



, , ■ i_ u a „n c ,M oa the interior, as well as the exterior and posterior 



anterior wines are enclosed with borders on all sides, tlie mierioi, m r 



border is dark brown ; the borders generally are broader, have a deeper tint, and the exterior costal projec- 

 tion is more prominent; the hinder wings have a large black spot in the middle of the exterior margin, 

 extending to the base, and gradually diffusing itself over the nervures ; on the under surface the exterior 

 ocellus is comparatively small, obsolete, oblong, or irregularly denned, bedded m a circular ring of the 

 marginal band, but never provided interiorly with a fulvous arch: the female has above an uniform deep 

 blackish brown colour without any yellowish shade. 



Both species were occasionally obtained by breeding, but I have only preserved the details of Thecla 

 Xenophon. The larva feeds on Schmkdelia racemosa, and was found in considerable abundance. The larva 

 and chrysalis are represented on the fourth plate : fig. 2 ; 2, a. The drawings of the larva in our collection, 

 which were made at different periods of the age of the insect, vary in colour from yellow with a greenish 

 cast, to dark ferruginous brown, and at one period the lateral bands are very obscure. 



The Hon. Company's Museum contains of Thecla Jarbas six male and five female specimens, and of Thecla 

 Xenophon seven male and six female specimens, most of which were obtained by breeding. 



28. Thecla Nedymond. Alee supra maris nigra, anticce plagd cyaned mediand maxima angulatd, versus 

 marginem interiorem attenuatd, posticce limbo cyaneo apicali latissimo : subtus dimidiatim albce 

 acfuscce limite intermedia recto, dimidio apicali anticarwm ad medium strigd undulatd subdiviso, 

 plagd interiore ex rufo ferrugineo nitente saturatiore ; posticm in regione anali fascia breri 

 insigni transversa aterrimd notatce, utrinque puncto minuto accessorio ; angulo anali flavo, 

 ferrngineo maculoto, strigisque duabus obsoletis abbreviatis ejusdem coloris freto, maculisque 

 insuper quatuor nigerrimis difformibus ornato, exteriore ocellari, medio duplici ex lunulis duabus 

 oppositis, interiore brevi marginali ; omnibus nitide argenteo irroratis. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 4 lin.) 

 Papilio Nedymond. Cram. pi. 299. fig. E. F. 

 Posterior wings narrow and elongate, with a prominent notch in the anal region, whence they pass 

 in a regular curve to the inner angle, bearing the tail in the middle, and the anal appendage, 

 which is narrow, elongate, and contracted at the base, at the extreme point. Upper surface 

 black ; anterior pair with a deep cyaneous patch covering the whole discoidal area, broader ante- 

 riorly and gradually attenuated towards the interior margin ; hinder wings with a broad posterior 

 border of the same cyaneous tint, passing parallel with the margin over one-third of the entire 

 surface, with a regularly defined inner edge: underneath the wings are white with a silvery gloss 

 from the base to the middle and ferruginous brown posteriorly, the boundary between the basal 

 and apical portions being regularly transverse, extending from the middle of the costa over the 

 disk to the anal region ; the apical portion is almost equally divided in the anterior wings by an 

 undulating blackish striga, the inner portion being of a more saturated reddish brown tint; in 

 the hinder pair the dark portion decreases in breadth towards the anal region, and terminates in 

 a curve following the outline of the wings ; a deep black streak, regularly transverse and tending 

 to the inner margin, stands at a small distance from the anal curve, accompanied by a solitary 

 dot at each extremity; the anal region is either entirely ferruginous or clouded with the brown 

 ground colour of the apical portion of the wing, sending off two short evanescent ferruginous 

 strigee, parallel with the margin ; this region is likewise adorned with several irregularly defined 

 black marks, covered with rich greenish metallic irrorations ; the first of these is an ocellate spot, 

 exterior of the tail near the marginal notch, bearing a broad shining lunule, next follow two short 



opposite 



