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 LEPIDOPTERA. 



Thecla : with the wings tailed, above blue, beneath green ; the posterior pair with a 

 submarginal row of dots, white without and black within. Expanse of the wings, 

 lJj- inch. 



Syn. Hesperia (R) Herodotus, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 286. Erie. M'eth. 9. 641, (Poly- 

 ommatus H.) 



Papilio Anryntor, Cramer, pi. &&,fig. E. 



? Papilio Eryx, Linn. Mantissa, 1. 537. Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 283. 



Papilio Menalcas, Cramer, pi. 259, fig. A, B. 

 Habitat. " In Indiis," (Fabricius). Surinam, (E?ic. M'eth.) 



THECLA PYTHAGORAS. 



Plate XXXIX. fig. 3. 



Species. Thecla Pythagoras : alis tricaudatis, atris, disco fulvo, lunulisque submargi- 

 nalibus ; posticarum fulvis ; subtus nigris albo variis fasciaque media alba, punc- 

 tisque duobus irroratis ad angulum ani. Expans. alar. unc. 1J. 

 Thecla : with the wings three-tailed, black, with the disc of each fulvous ; the 

 posterior with submarginal fulvous spots ; beneath black varied with white ; 

 with a white central bar, and with two eyes at the anal angle. Expanse of the 

 wings, 1^ inch. 

 Syn. Hesperia (R.) Pythagoras, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 259. Enc. M'eth. 9. 619, (Poly- 

 ommatus P.) 

 Var. (caudis mutilis) Hesperia (R.) Juba, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. I. p. 314. 



Fabricius states the habitat of Pythagoras to be " In Indus," but that of Juba, 

 which is a variety of the same species, with the tails broken off, to be Sierra Leone. 

 In the Encyclopedie Methodique, the western coast of Africa is given as the habitat 

 of Pythagoras. 



POLYOMMATUS FLORUS. 



Plate XXXIX. fig. 4. 



Genus. Polyommatus, Latreille. 



Species. Polyommatus Florus : alis integerrimis, fulvis, margine nigro ; anticis supra punc- 

 tis duobus ; subtus omnibus basi punctis plurimis nigris. Expans. alar. unc. 1 . 

 Polyommatus : with the wings entire, fulvous, with a slender black margin ; the 

 anterior above with two black spots ; beneath all the wings at the base spotted 

 with black. Expanse of the wings, 1 inch. 

 Syn. Hesperia (R.) Florus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 310. 

 Habitat. "In Indiis," {Fabricius). 



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