Fabricius, without referring to this figure of Drury, described an Indian species of the same genus from Drury's collection, under the same specific name, which must of course be rejected. The French encyclopedists consider the latter as identical with the Fabrician Hesperia Isocrates.
PLATE XXIV.
EREBUS HERCYNA.
Plate [XXIV]. fig. 1, 2.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Nocturna. Family: Noctuidæ, Steph.
Genus. Erebus, Latr. Thysania, Dalm. Phalæna (Noctua), Drury.
Erebus Hercyna. Alis dentatis fuscis obscurè undulatis, anticarum disco (puncto nigro) posticarum strigâ mediâ undulatâ pallidè cinereis. (Expans. Alar. 4 unc. 3 lin.)
Syn. Phalæna (Noctua) Hercyna, Drury, App. vol. 2.
Habitat: Jamaica.