224 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



that genus, are constructed on the same plan ; whereas in the anterior feet of the male they resemble the 

 individuals of the first great subdivision of the genus Thecla, the Th. stride sic dicta. In the covering of the 

 underside of the wings, in their markings and in the abrupt termination of the hinder pair, they differ from 

 all the individuals of the genera Lyccena and Thecla. But our knowledge of the genus Phcedra is still 

 imperfect and until its character shall be fully illustrated by the discovery of its metamorphosis, which I 

 hope to obtain from our Indian researches, its present disposition at the extremity of the Vermiform stirps, 

 is only provisional. In the Encyclopedic the continental species of Phcedra is arranged in the fourth great 

 subdivision of the genus Polyommntus, comprising subjects with entire or slightly dentate wings ; several of 

 the species of the same section resemble our insect in the colour of the upper surface, although they have 

 nothing of the peculiarity which distinguishes the under side ; and they are all essentially different in a 

 generic point of view. 



A very detailed dissection of our genus, in which the peculiarities of the perfect insect are distinctly 

 brought into view, has been prepared : this I hope to be enabled to introduce in one of the succeeding 

 plates of the Lepidoptera diurna. 



51. Phaedra Terricola. Aim poslicce obtusm ; maris suprd ex aurantio fulvce, limbis exteriore et 

 posteriore apice largo anticarum fascidque tenuissimd marginali posticarum nigricanti-fuscis ; 

 foemina; fusees, singula plagu maxima discoidali alba : subtus sericeo-albce, pagind told singula- 

 rum colore opaco nitente squanmloso densi opertd, serie punctorum intramarginali strigdque 

 post-mediand obsoletissimis nigris. (Exp. alar. 1 unc. 5 — 7 lin.) 



Hesperia R. Phadrus. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. torn. 3. pars. 1. p. 307. No. 165. (The 

 male.) 



Hesperia. R. JEsopus. Fab. Ent. Syst. Em. loc. cit. No. 164. (The female.) 



Papilio Cinyra. Cram. pi. 238. fig. C. (The male.) 



Papilio Thetis. Cram. pi. 238. D. (The female.) 



Polyommatus Plwdrus. MM. Latr. et Godt. Erie. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. 675. 



Hospitatur in Musaeo Domini Banks. 



Hinder wings broad and obtuse with an abrupt regularly transverse posterior margin, gradually 

 rounded towards the outer apical angle : upper surface, in the male, fulvous with a deep orano- e 

 shade, having the exterior and posterior borders of the fore wings defined by a hemispherical 

 boundary which leaves a broad apex, and a narrow posterior marginal line of the hinder wings, 

 blackish brown; in the female brown, the wings being individually marked with a larcre oblon^ 

 white spot occupying the disk and adjoining portions of the surface : underneath both pair are 

 densely covered throughout with a milky-white glistening stratum of colouring particles, delicately 

 pulverulent or scaly in appearance, exhibiting when rubbed irregular patches of a brownish 

 ground ; in some specimens this stratum is uniform and immaculate ; others are very obsoletely 

 marked with a series of minute dots, just within the posterior margins, and with a very faint 

 common striga behind the disk, accompanied in some individuals by a parallel line towards the 

 middle of the wing, of a black colour. Body above brown, with lengthened fulvous hairs in 

 the male and brownish hairs in the female; underneath silky white: legs of the same colour 

 with very obscure orange bands towards the tarsal extremity. Antennae brown with an orange 

 tip. 



This species appears to have an extensive range on the Continent : we have, from various parts of India, 

 five male and two female specimens. It was not observed in Java. The Banksian Cabinet contains one 



male 



