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

by William Swainson

Tribe, Papiliones. Family, Polyommatidæ. Sub-family, Theclanæ, Nob.

Sub-Generic Character.

Palpi, in both sexes, very long, thick, porrect, twice as long as the head, curved downwards, all the joints entirely covered with close-set scales, posterior wings six-tailed.

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Specific Character.

Above shining blue: beneath emerald-green, marked with minute black waved lines.

Papilio imperialis. Cramer, Pl. 75. f. E. F.

Hesperia Venus. Fab. Ent. Sys. 3. 1. 268.