Identifier: rhopaloceraexoti03smit (find matches)
Title: Rhopalocera exotica ; being illustraions of new, rare, and unfigured species of butterflies
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Smith, Henley Grose, d.1911 Kirby, W. F. (William Forsell), 1844-1912
Subjects: Butterflies
Publisher: London : Gurney & Jackson
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ejond them is more restricted. It is the same size asL. Fchctus, but the wings are rounder. Female. Uppeeside brownish-black, with a common white band, coveringthe posterior wings from near the base to two-thirds of their length, andextending obliquely upwards on the anterior wings for two-thirds of the distanceto the apex. On the anterior wings the space above the white band is dustedwith bright blue to the base, and nearly to the costa, and the lower part of thewhite band on the posterior wings is also bordered with blue outside ; towardsthe anal angle of the latter is an indistinct blue submarginal line. Underside differs from the female of L. Uclecttts in similar particulars tothose in the foregoing description of the male; the dark area on both wings ofL. Parakctus is browner and narrower than on Z. Eclectits, and the bluemarkings are much darker blue. Hab. New Ireland. In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith.The male will be figured in a subsequent Part. LAMPIDES n THYSONOTIS V.
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Horace Knight del.etlitli 1.2. LAMPIDES PARALECTUSc? 3 „ ALLECTUS ? 4.5. „ EPILECTUS i 6 . „ „ * West.Newman imp. 7. 8. LAMPIDES AMPHIS SI M .a, ^ 9 „ ? 10.11. THYSONOTIS PHROSO. ? LYC^NID^ (Oriental). PLATE XII. II.—LAMPIDES ALLECTUS. Grose-Smith. ?. Fig. 3.Female. Vide anted, Yol.U., Oriental Lyca)nid;Te, XI. Lampides, page G. In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smitli. III.—LAMPIDES PAEALECTUS. Grose-Smith, s Figs. 1, 2.3Iah. Vide anted, Vol. II., Oriental Lycsenidce, XL Lampides, page 7. In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. IV.—LAMPIDES EPILECTUS. i. Figs. 4, 5. ?. Fig. 6. Lampides Epileetus, H. Grose-Smith, Annals and Magazine of NaturalHistory, Series G, Vol. XIX., p. 179 (February, 1897). Exp. If inch. Male. Upperside resembles L. Eclectus, Grose-Smith, but on the anteriorwings the apex is more broadly greyish-black, and on the posterior wings theblue area is more restricted. Underside. Scarcely differs from L. Eclectus, but on both wings the outermarginal dar

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