Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

Pl. 45.

MARIUS Cinna

MARIUS Cinna.

Family Nymphalidæ. (Stirps. 3? Horsf.)

Generic Character.

Larva and pupa unknown.

Perfect insect. Wings Papilioniform, caudal appendages long, acute. Palpi porrect, approximating, and meeting at their tips so as to form an acute cone: the whole covered with compact scales. Anterior feet small, slender, imperfect, the tarsal joints? concealed by long hairs: club of the antennæ terminal, sub-fuciform and cylindric. Body short, thick, robust.

Type, Papilio Marius. Auct.