Papilio (N.) Eudoxus, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 65. No. 203. Enc. Méth. ix. p. 352. No. 6.
Habitat: Sierra Leone.
Upper Side. Antennæ black. Eyes, head, thorax, and abdomen red-brown. Anterior wings dark chocolate, red-brown at the base; a row of brown orange-coloured spots is placed on the external edges of these wings, those next the tips being smallest; a brown-orange bar also rises on the anterior edges near the tips, and crossing these and the posterior wings meets at the extremity of the abdomen, increasing in width as it approaches the abdominal corners. Posterior wings likewise dark chocolate, but next the body red-brown. Each of them is furnished with two tails, and has an indented line of brown-orange running along the external edges, from the upper to the abdominal corners.
Under Side. Palpi and breast orange. Feet ash colour. Sides and abdomen red-brown. One half of the superior wings next the body is chocolate, but next the external edges brown-orange, with a large black streak at the lower corners, and three others of different shapes in the middle of the wings; the chocolate division is adorned with a number of black streaks and marks, margined with fine silver white. Posterior wings chocolate, with an indented line of brown-orange placed along the external edges, verged at top with black; these wings are marked with a number of silvery white lines and streaks, placed against each other in different directions. Two small white spots, joined together, are placed on a black-ground at the abdominal corners.
HESPERIA HELOPS.
Plate [XXXIII]. fig. 2, 3.
Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Hesperiidæ, Steph.
Genus. Hesperia, Fabr. Latr. God. Papilio (Pleb. Urb.), Linn. Drury, &c.
Hesperia Helops. Alis anticis fuscis maculis hyalinis (tribus minutis) subapicalibus; posticis suprà flavis, fasciâ submarginali atrâ arcuatâ, subtùs fuscis disco albo. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 2 lin.)
Syn. Papilio (Pleb. Urb.) Helops, Drury, App. vol. 3.