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LEPIDOPTERA. 



ERYCINA PETRONIUS. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 2. 



Species. Erycina Petronius : alis integris cseruleia, strigis apiceque nigris ; subtus fusco- 

 cinereis, nigro punctatia. Expans. alar. unc. If. 

 Erycina : with the wings entire, blue, with black streaks and posterior margins ; 

 beneath brownish ashy, with black spots. Expanse of the wings, If inch. 

 Sra Hesperia (R.) Petronius, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 324. Enc. Meth. 9 570 

 (Erycina P.) 

 $ Papilio AJenander, Cramer Pap. tab. 334,/ C, D. 

 Habitat. " In Indus," (Fabricius). Guiana and Brazil, (Eric. Meth.) 



ERYCINA REGULITS. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 3. 



bPEClES. Erycina Regulus : alis integerrimis, nigris, fasciis duabus albis aut flavescentibus, 

 externa anticarum interrupta. Expans. alar. unc. li. 

 Erycina : with the wings entire, black, with two white or yellowish broad bands, 

 the outer in the anterior wings being broken. Expanse of the wings, 1 J inch. 

 Syn. Hesperia (R.) Regulus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 318. Enc. Meth. 9. 589. 

 (Erycina R.) 



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



ERYCINA LUCANUS. 



Plate XLIII. fig. 4. 



Species. Erycina Lucanus : alis integerrimis, supra flavis, macula media anticarum lim- 



boque omni nigris ; subtus anticis flavescentibus fusco-maculatis ; posticis rubris 



flavo irroratis et fusco-maculatis. Expans. alar. unc. \\. 

 Erycina : with the wings entire, above yellow, with a central spot in the anterior 



pair and all the edges black ; beneath the anterior yellowish, with brown spots ; 



the posterior red, with yellow dots and brown spots. Expanse of the wings, 



1\ inch. 

 Syn. Hesperia (R.) Lucanus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. III. 1. p. 322. Enc. Meth. 9. 58C, 



(Erycina L.) 

 Habitat. " In Indiis," (Fabricius). 



The accompanying figure of a species described by Fabricius, from the collection 

 of Drury, and the drawings of Mr. Jones, (from which also Donovan, in all proba- 

 bility, obtained his acquaintance with the species,) enables us to clear up the con- 



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