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LEPIDOPTEKA. 



following out his peculiar theories, lie gave it as a subgenus of the genus Urania, 

 which name he changed to Leilus, (considering its type to be the Papilio Leilus of 

 Linnaeus,) on the ground that the name Urania had been employed in Botany, which 

 is certainly the case ; but as the genus of plants ought to retain its previous name 

 Ravenala, the name of Urania is not inapplicable to a genus of Lepidoptera. But 

 Leptocircus ought clearly not to be regarded as belonging to the same group as 

 Leilus, Orontes, and Rkipheus, together with Patroclus, Lunus, and Empedocles, 

 which decidedly belong thereto, although omitted by Mr. Swainson. The veins of the 

 wings of Leptocircus are decidedly Papilionideous, and have no resemblance whatever 

 to those of Urania. There is it is true some analogy in the form of the posterior 

 wings, but, I presume, no real relation can be supported on such a character, and I 

 can discover no other to give it a relation either with Urania, or Erycina. In the 

 male of this insect, the pale band crossing the wings is of a greenish white, but in 

 the female it is transparent white in the anterior, and white in the posterior wings. 



The species was described by Fabricius from a specimen in the collection of Sir 

 J. Banks. It is become sufficiently common. 



HBSPERIA PROPERTIUS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 2. 



Family. Hesperill\e. 



Genus. Hespeeia. 



Species. Hesperia Propertius : alis supra nigris, anticis lineolis duabus marginalibus baseos 

 maculisque flavis, posticis fascia flava ; subtus, anticis atro, flavo, rufoque variis, 

 posticis fasciis runs flavisque margine tenuiori nigro. Expans. alar, una 14. 

 Hesperia : with the wings above black, the anterior with two marginal lines at the 

 base and some spots of yellow, the posterior with a yellow bar ; beneath the 

 anterior are varied with black, yellow and red, and the posterior have alternate 

 bars of red and yellow, with a slender black edge. Expanse of the wings, 

 1\ inch. 



Syn. Hesperia (U.) Propertius, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 325. Eac. Meth. 9. 773. 

 Habitat. " In India," (Fabricius). 



HESPERIA TIBULLUS. 



Plate XLVII. fig. 3. 

 Species. Hesperia Tibullus : alis supra anticis nigris flavo-maculatis ; subtus subconcolori- 

 bus, costasubrufa ; posticis flavis margine omni, postico interrupto, nigro, subtus 

 vanegatis. Expans. alar, una 1A. 



