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LEPIDOPTERA. 
HESPERIA NUMITOR. 
Plate XLIV. fig. 3. 
Family. Hesperiid^:, Stephens. 
Genus. Hesperia, Latreille , Godart. Battus p. Scop. Papilio (PI. Rur.) Linnceus. 
Species. Hesperia Numitor: alis integerrimis, fuscis ; posticis supra disco flavo; subtus 
flavis, anticis disco fusco. Expans. alar. unc. 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. 
Syn. Hesperia (R.) Numitor, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 324. Enc. Meth. 9. 777. 
Habitat. “ In Indiis,” ( Fabricius ). Philadelphia, {Enc. Meth.) 
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. Polyommatus Plinius : alis caudatis, albo nigroque variis ; anticis supra maculis 
quadratis fuscis ; omnibus subtus albis, fusco et nigro transverse strigosis, serie 
duplici punctorum submarginalium punctoque gemmo aureo ad angulum ani posti- 
carum. 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 trans- 
verse 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. 1. p. 284. Enc. Meth. 9. 658, (Polyom- 
matus PI.) Horsfield Lep. Jav. 1. p. 72. 
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