PLATE XLIY. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Wings tailed, above fuscous : lower ones white at the tip, with 

 two black dots. 



Hesperia Phocides: alis caudatis supra fuscis posticis albis : 

 punctis duobus nigris. Fdbr. Ent, Si/st. t, S, p. 

 1. 282.85. 



Hesperia Phocides is an insect of most remarkable appearance, 

 the upper surface being no less distinguished for its singularity than 

 the lower one for its delicacy and beauty. It is one of that particu- 

 lar kind of Papiliones that are furnished with tails ; of these it has 

 two, and those from their magnitude not inconspicuous. Above the 

 anterior wings are brown, and half the posterior pair are of the same 

 colour, but the lower half, together with the tails, are white, and 

 towards the posterior margin marked with two black spots. 



The under surface of this butterfly is of a delicate white colour; 

 the anterior pair marked with three orange bands, the posterior ones 

 with several interrupted fine lines of orange, and a few dots of the 

 same colour, the end of the wing marked with three black spots. 



This rare butterfly is a native of Africa, and has not been before 

 delineated in the work of any author. It is one of the Fabrician spe- 

 cies described from the cabinet of the late Sir Joseph Banks ; our 

 figure is copied from the specimen which Fabricius described. 



