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LEPIDOPTERA. 



the section of the Hesperi-sphinges of Latreille, but also, because it and all the other 

 species of the remarkable genus to which it belongs, are inhabitants of the tropical 

 parts of South America. 



VANESSA LETHE. 



Plate XXIII. fig. 1. 



Family. Nymphalid.*;, Leach. 



Genus. Vanessa, Zatr. God. Curtis. Hamadryades, Hubn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal. Fair) 



Species. Vanessa Lethe : alis subcaudatis supra fulvis ; anticis apioe late nigro, fascia 



niaculisque flavis ; posticis margine flavo striga nigra. Expans. alar. 2 2h une. 



Vanessa : with the posterior wings shortly tailed, fulvous above ; the anterior 

 ■wings with the extremity broadly black, in which is an oblique fascia and 

 several spots of a yellowish colour; the posterior wings have the margin 

 yellowish, with several parallel narrow black submarginal lines. Expanse of 

 the wings, 2 — 2j inches. 



Syn. Papilio (Nymph.) Lethe, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1, p. 80. Enc. M'eih. 9. 818. (Vanessa 

 L.) 



Habitat. " In Indiis," (Fabricius). Brazil, (Enc. Meth.) 



Like the last species, the term applied by Fabricius to indicate the habitat of 

 this species, evidently led Donovan to give it as an inhabitant of the East Indies. It 

 is, however, according to the Encyclopeclie Methodique, as well as its very near ally, 

 Vanessa Zabulina, an inhabitant of Brazil. 



NYMPHALIS COCLES. 



Plate XXIII. fig. 2. 



Genus. Nymphalis, Latreille. Papilio (Nymphalis) Fabricius. Paphia, Horsfield. 

 Species. Nymphalis Cocles : alis albo, fusco, flavescentique strigosis, fascia media communi 

 alba ; posticis subcaudatis ; subtus albidis striga punctorum ocellatorum. 

 Expans. alar. unc. 2. 

 Nymphalis : with the wings transversely streaked with white, brown and yellowish, 

 and with a narrow white bar running across all the wings beyond the middle ; 

 posterior wings with short tails ; beneath whitish with a row of eyelets. Expanse 

 of the wings, 2 inches. 



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