Plate IX. fig. 1, 2.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Papilionidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. PAPILIO, _Auct._ Papilio (Eq. Ach.) _Drury_.
PAPILIO MENESTHEUS. Alis dentatis, caudatis, nigris, fasciâ maculari
maculisque marginalibus flavis, omnibus subtus basi albido striatis,
posticis lunulis rufis coerulescentibusque. (Expans. Alar. 5 unc. 3 lin.)
SYN. Papilio (Eq. Ach.) Menestheus, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Cram. pl._
142. _fig._ A. B. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 31. _Enc. Méth._ ix.
_p._ 59. _Boisd. Hist. Nat. Lep._ 1. _p._ 236.
HABITAT: Sierra Leone (_Drury_). India (erroneously, _Fabr._).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ brown. The head, thorax, and abdomen greenish
black. Anterior wings black, covered with minute green spots, the tips
like black velvet. Some long russet-coloured hairs, occupying a space the
size of a sixpence, are situated close to the posterior margin, near the
lower corner; there are also twenty lemon-coloured spots on each, eight
of which are very small and marginal; eight other oblong spots form a
bar, rising on the anterior margin and running obliquely across the
wings, meeting near the extremity of the body. Posterior wings velvety
black, covered at the base with small green spots, and having five lemon
spots running along the external edges. Each of these wings is furnished
with a tail, having a lemon spot on each side; and on the abdominal edge
is an eye, whose under part is red, and the upper blue. Near the upper
corner is a red spot, hidden in the figure by the superior wings.
_Under Side._ Head and breast ash-coloured. All the spots and marks which
on the upper side are lemon colour, on this are pale cream-coloured.
Anterior wings soot-coloured, the spots very distinct; those next the
external edges being larger, with many cream-coloured stripes at the base
running longitudinally parallel with the tendons both of the anterior and
posterior wings. These are adorned with several eyes of velvety black;
the upper sides being blue, and the under orange verged with cream. The
marginal spots are considerably larger than on the upper side.
{18}THECLA THETIS [female].
Plate IX. fig. 3, 4.
ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Lycænidæ, _Leach_.
GENUS. THECLA, Fabr. Polyommatus p. _Latr. God._ Hesperia p. _Fabr.
Linn._ Papilio (Dan. Cand.), _Drury_.
THECLA THETIS. Alis integris; maris supra fulvis margine exteriori nigro;
foeminæ fuscis disco albo: subtus albis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)
SYN. Papilio Thetis, _Drury, App. vol._ 2. _Cramer, pl._ 238. _fig._ D.
[female].
Hesperia Phædrus, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 307. [male].
Hesperia Æsopus, _Fabr. op. cit. p._ 307. [female].
Papilio Cinyra, _Cram. pl._ 238. C. [male].
Polyommatus Phædrus, _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 675. _No._ 181.
HABITAT: Bombay (_Drury_). Bengal, Coromandel (_Enc. Méth._).
_Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dark brown. Wings
russet, or dark hair-coloured, with a white spot in the middle of each,
of an oblong shape in the anterior wings, and much smaller and placed
transversely in the posterior. Cilia and abdominal groove white.
_Under Side._ Palpi, breast, and legs white. Wings on this side fine
silvery white, immaculate. Margins of the wings entire.