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LEPIDOPTERA. 
HESPERIA ZELEUCUS. 
Plate LI. fig. 3. 
Species. Hesperia Zeleucus : atra, capite anoque sanguineis ; alis concoloribus atris ; posticis 
margine tenuissimo albo. Expans. alar. unc. 2^. 
Hesperia : black, with the head and anus sanguineous ; wings coloured alike on both 
sides, black; the posterior with a very slender white margin. Expanse of the 
wings, 2£ inches. 
Syn. Hesperia (U.) Zeleucus, Fair. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 346. Enc. Meth. 9. 733. 
Papilio Thasus, Cramer,, pi. 380, f. M, N. 
Habitat. “ In Indiis,” {Fabricius). Surinam, and Brazil, {Enc. Meth.) 
The three preceding species are represented on a sprig of the Lagerstrcemeria Indica. 
HESPERIA ORCUS. 
Plate LII. fig. 1. 
Species. Hesperia Orcus : alis subtus fuscis, anticis punctis maculaque lunata vitreo-flavis ; 
posticis fasciis obsoletis caeruleis ; subtus caerulescentibus, margine nigro. Expans, 
alar. unc. 1^. 
Hesperia : with the wings above brown, the anterior with several spots, and a lunate 
mark of glassy yellow, the posterior with obsolete blue bars ; beneath blue with a 
black edge. Expanse of the wings, 11 inch. 
Syn. Hesperia (U.) Orcus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. Ill, 1. p. 341 Enc. Meth. 9. 789. 
Papilio Cerialis, Cramer Pap. pi. 392 , Jig. N, O. Stoll Suppl. Cramer, pi. 10 , fig. 1. 
Habitat. “ In Indiis,” ( Fabricius ). Guiana, {Enc. Meth. Stoll.) 
The caterpillar, according to Stoll, (who observed the transformations of this 
species in Guiana,) is dirty green, with the head brown, a spot on each side of the 
segments of the body, and two ventral lines of white. It remains in the chrysalis 
state only about seven days. 
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