Part 20

PLATE XIX.

SATURNIA ALINDA.

Plate XIX.

ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Bombycidæ, Steph.

GENUS. SATURNIA, Schrank. Attacus, Germar. Bombyx p., Ochs. Phalæna (Attacus), Drury.

SATURNIA ALINDA. Alis rufo-brunneis margine saturatioribus signisque nonnullis undulatis obscuris, anticis maculâ discoidali fenestratatâ; posticis ocello magno centrali. (Expans. Alar. 7 unc. 9 lin.)

SYN. Phalæna Attacus Alinda, Drury, App. vol. 3. Oliv. Enc. Méth. 5. p. 26. 10. (Bombyx A.)

HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1776" (Drury's MSS.).

Upper Side. Antennæ pectinated. Neck buff-coloured. Thorax and abdomen brownish red, the centre of the former being grey. Anterior wings brown-red, darkest along the external edges, with two faint dark indented lines crossing them from the anterior to the posterior edges. A transparent spot is placed near the middle of the wings, about a quarter of an inch from the anterior edges, without any iris of a different colour. Posterior wings brown-red, and darkest along the external edges, having a few faint waved lines. Near the middle is a small transparent spot, edged with buff at the bottom, surrounded by a dark brown border, and which is also encircled by another quite black.

Under Side. Breast red-brown. Legs, abdomen, and wings entirely of a dark buff. All the faint waved lines, hardly discernible on the other side, are here very conspicuous. Close to the transparent spots, on the anterior wings, are two of a dark brown, and two larger are also placed close to the transparent ones in the posterior wings, without any of the circular ones which are on the upper side. Margins of the wings entire.

{27}PLATE XX.

NYMPHALIS ALTHEA.

Plate XX. fig. 1, 2.

ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, Swains.

GENUS. NYMPHALIS, Latr. God. Papilio (Nymphalis), Fabr.

NYMPHALIS ALTHEA. Alis dentatis suprà fuscis, fasciâ strigâque angulato-dentatis albis; subtùs flavescentibus lituris atris fasciâ strigisque iisdem. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 3 lin.)

SYN. Papilio (N.) Althea, Fabr. Spec. Ins. 2. p. 88. No. 389. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 113. No. 347. Cramer, pl. 89. fig. E. F.

Nymphalis A., Enc. Méth. ix. p. 383. No. 111.

HABITAT: "Sierra Leone, Mr. Smeathman, 1775" (Drury's MSS.).

Upper Side. Antennæ brown. Thorax, abdomen, and wings dark brown; a row of ash-coloured crescents cross the latter from the middle of the posterior to the anterior edges, uniting with a bar of the same colour, which crosses the posterior wings, meeting below the abdomen: another row of ash-coloured marks, like beards of arrows, are placed between the above-mentioned row and the external edges, which are bordered with some faint lightish marks. Posterior wings with an additional row of light arrow beards running along the external edges, which are also bordered with faint lightish marks like the anterior.

Under Side. Palpi white. Breast and legs light clay-coloured. Wings paler than on the upper side, being greyish brown. The light-coloured bar, crossing the wings and meeting below the abdomen, is very conspicuous on this side. The markings are much the same as on the upper. Margins of the wings dentated.

VANESSA AMESTRIS.

Plate XX. fig. 3, 4.

ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, Swains.

GENUS. VANESSA, Fabr. Latr. God. Hamadryades, Hübn. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), Drury.

VANESSA AMESTRIS. Alis dentatis, anticis falcatis posticis rotundatis; omnibus suprà fuscis ad extimum fasciis tribus macularibus transversis, intermediâ ferrugineâ, (ad apicem maculis duabus albis) cæteris coerulescentibus subtus marmoratis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.)

SYN. Papilio (N. P.) Amestris, Drury, App. vol. 3.

Papilio (N.) Amestris, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 116. 360.