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LEP1D0PTERA. 



HESPERIA NUMITOR. 



Plate XLIV. fig. 3. 



Family. Hesperiidjb, Stephens. 



Genus. Hesperia, Latreille, Godart. Battus p. Scop. Papilio (PL Rur.) Linnaeus. 



Species. Hesperia Nujiitor : alia integerriuiis, fuscis ; posticis supra disco flavo ; subtus 



flavis, anticis disco fusco. Expans. alar. una 1 — 1+. 

 Hesperia : with the wings entire, brown ; the posterior with the disc above 



yellow ; the under surface of all the wings yellow, except the disc of the anterior, 



which is brown. Expanse of the wings, 1 to 1£ inch. 

 Sy.\. Hesperia (R) Numitor, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 324. Enc. Me'th. 9. 777. 

 Habitat. " In Indiis," (Fabricius). Philadelphia, {Enc. Me'th.) 



Donovan has evidently introduced this, as well as many of the preceding butter- 

 flies, (especially those belonging to the great genus Erycina, which are almost 

 exclusively Brazilian,) into the present work, on the authority of the loose habitat of 

 Fabricius, " In Indiis." The Hesperia Numitor is, however, an inhabitant of North 

 America, having been sent from Philadelphia to M. Latreille by M. Lesueur. I have 

 also received it from the same city, in a large collection of insects of that country, 

 for which I am indebted to the liberality of Mr. Titian R. Peale, the curator of the 

 Museum of Philadelphia, a very zealous entomologist. 



POLYOMMATUS PLINIUS. 



Plate XLV. fig. 1. 



Species. Polyojimatus Plinius : alis caudatis, albo nigroque variis ; anticis supra maculis 

 quadratis fuscis ; omnibus subtus albis, fusco et nigro transverse strigosis, serie 

 duplicL punctorutn subinarginalium punctoque gemmo aurea ad angulum ani 

 posticarum. Expans. alar. unc. 1. 

 Polyommatus : with the wings tailed, and varied above with black and white ; 

 the anterior above with square brown spots ; all the wings beneath white, with 

 transverse brown or black streaks, and with a double row of submarginal dots ; 

 the posterior with a double golden spot at the anal angle. Expanse of the 

 wings, 1 inch. 



Syn. Hesperia (R.) Plinius, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. I. p. 284. Enc. Meth. 9. 658, (Polyom- 

 matus PI.) Horsfield Lep. Jav. I. p. 72. 



