Plate III. fig. 4, 5.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Lycænidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. POLYOMMATUS, _Latr. & God._ Hesperia (rur.), _Fabr._ Argus p.
_Scop._
POLYOMMATUS ISIS. Alis supra violaceo-coerulescentibus, disco anticarum
maculâ, posticarum fasciâ albis; subtus albis; posticis fasciis duabus
repandis, et macularum serie nigris, harum duabus internis argentatis
[male]. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Dan. Festiv.) Isis, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 1.
Hesperia Isarchus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 316. 198. _Herbst.
Pap._ 320. _f._ 8, 9. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 679. _No._ 194. (Pol.
Isarchus.)
Papilio Camillus, _Cramer_, _pl._ 300. _fig._ A. B.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone (_Drury_). "America, Dom. Drury" (_Fabricius_).
Timor (_Enc. Méth._).
_Upper Side._ Head, black. Thorax and abdomen dark blue. Anterior wings
fine violet, a little inclining to purple; round the external edge runs a
small narrow black line. Cilia white and black. On the middle of these
wings is a white patch, with two small faint dark spots on its upper
side. Posterior wings violet-coloured, with the same narrow black line
running along the external edges as on the anterior. An irregular white
bar crosses these wings from the anterior to the abdominal edges,
beginning near the upper corner and ending near the extremity of the
body.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, and sides white. Legs black. Abdomen white.
Anterior wings white, with some dark brown markings running along the
anterior and external edges, whereon are some white streaks and patches.
Posterior wings white, whereof one-third next the external edges is dark
brown, but next the cilia is whitish; whereon are six small round brown
spots, two of which, next the abdominal corners, sparkle with blue like a
sapphire; the upper parts of these wings, next the shoulders, have a
brown double streak on each. All the wings are entire.