Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 2 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

This is the very common little Olive, sent in such abundance in the West India boxes of shells; we figure it, because it is seldom rightly named in collections, being confounded with conoidalis, oryza, and several others of an equally diminutive size: the plaits are sharp, short, well defined, and nearly all of equal size; although the base of the pillar forms an internal elevation.

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Pl. 59.

MARIUS Thetys.

MARIUS Thetys.

Order Lepidoptera. Sub-order Papilionides.

(Thrysanuriform Stirps.—Horsf.)

Generic Character. See Pl. [45].