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

by William Swainson

PELEUS Æacus.

Family Hesperidæ.

Generic Character.

Antennæ not hooked, the club formed into a long, slender, fusiform arch. Wings with both surfaces alike, horizontally divaricated when at rest; posterior rounded, entire; broader from the base to the anal angle, than to the exterior margin.

Type. Hesp. Peleus. Fab.

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Specific Character.

Wings deep brownish black; anterior with a redish transverse band, united to a spot of the same, and tipt with a sub-hyaline band of redish orange.

Hesp. Peleus. Fab. Cramer, pl. 284, f. F.