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 LEPIDOPTERA. 



ERYCINA? BIBULUS. 



Plate XL VI. fig. 1. 



Species. Erycina ? Bibulus : alis integerrirnis ; supra fusois, anticis in medio litura cinerea ; 

 subtus anticis einereis punctis aliquot apicis fuscis annulo argenteo cinctis, striga- 

 que marginali argentea ; postieis albis striga media argentea, punctis aliquot 

 fuscis apice fusco punctis argenteis. Expans. alar. vine. 1 \. 

 Erycina % with the wings entire ; above brown, the anterior with a cinereous 

 stripe in the centre ; beneath the anterior cinereous, with several apical brown 

 spots surrounded with silver, and a marginal silver stripe; posterior white, with 

 a central silver bar, several brown spots, and the apex brown with silvery spots. 

 Expanse of the wings, \\ inch. 



Syn. Hesperia (R.) Bibulus, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. \.p. 307. 

 Habitat. " In Indiis," (Fabricius). 



POLYOMMATUS HYLAX. 



Plate XLVI. fig. 2. 



Species. Polyommatus Hylax : alis integris, supra fuscis immaculatis, subtus einereis, 

 punctis nigris arcubus submarginalibus fuscis. Expans. alar. | unc. 

 Polyommatus: with the wings entire, brown above without spots, beneath 

 cinereous with black spots, and with a row of submarginal lunules, (behind 

 which is a row of small black dots). Expanse of the wings, -§- of an inch. 

 Syn. Hesperia (R.) Hylax, Fabr. Mont. Ins. 2. p. 77. Ent. Syst. III. I. p. 304. Enc. 

 Meth. 9. 701, (Polyommatus H.) nee Pithecops Hylax, Horsfield Lep. Jav. 1. p. 66, 

 pi. l.f. 2, 2 a. 

 Papilio Lysimon, Ochsenheimer Pap. Eur. t. 1 ? Enc. Meth. 9. 701 ? 

 Habitat. " In India orientali," (Fabricius). 



I can by no means agree with Dr. Horsfield, in considering the insect which he 

 has figured under the name of Pithecops Hylax as identical with the Fabrician 

 insect, as that which is here figured is marked more agreeably with the original 

 description of the species, short as it is. Had Fabricius been describing Dr. 

 Horsfield's insect, he would have said « strigis duabus submarginalibus punctorum 

 mgrorum," instead of "nigropunctatis," which implies a general scattering of dots 

 over the wings ; moreover Dr. Horsfield's insect exhibits no trace of the "arcubus 

 fuscis," described by Fabricius. 



