Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 2

by Dru Drury

PLATE XVI.

NYMPHALIS (LIMENITIS) SIBILLA.

Plate [XVI]. fig. 1, 2.

Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Nymphalidæ, Swains.

Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. God. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.), Linn. Drury. Subgenus: Limenitis, Fabr. Steph. Naiades, Hübn.

Nymphalis (Limenitis) Sibilla. Alis subdentatis supra atro-cœruleis; fasciâ maculari albâ; posticis subtus basi cinereo-cœrulescente immaculatis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)

Syn. Papilio Sibilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 781.

N. Camilla, Enc. Méth. ix. p. 408. and of the German Lepidopterists.

Papilio (Nymph.) Sibilla var. Drury.