Illustrations of Exotic Entomology, Volume 3

by Dru Drury

Under Side. Palpi reddish. Tongue and legs black. Breast black, with red spots on the sides. Abdomen black, with the sides and anus red. Wings on this side coloured as on the upper side, but rather more brilliant.

ERYCINA AMPYX.

Plate [IX]. fig. 2, 3.

Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Lycænidæ? Steph.

Genus. Erycina, Fabr. Latr. God. Papilio (Dan. Fest.), Drury.

Erycina Ampyx. Alis subintegris supra fuscis, anticarum maculis duabus flavis; subtus omnibus flavis, maculis ferrugineis auro-pupillatis. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 9 lin.)

Syn. Papilio (Pl. urb.) Ampyx, Drury, App. vol. 3.

Erycina Ampyx, Latr. & God. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 586. No. 105.

Habitat: Brazil. "Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonifas, 1776" (Drury's MSS.).

Upper Side. Antennæ white, brown at their extremities. Thorax, abdomen, and wings brown; the anterior wings having two oval straw-coloured spots placed near the middle, and the anterior edges of the posterior ones streaked with the same colour.