COLLECTION

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William Schaus

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DESCRIPTIONS AND FIGURES

OF SOME NEW

LEPIDOPTEROUS INSECTS,

CHIEFLY FROM

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NEPAL.

BY

GEORGE ROBERT GRAY, F.L.S., &c.

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PREFACE.

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The following figures were selected from General Hardwick e’s
Collection of Drawings. The Engravings were made, the im-
pressions coloured, and the descriptions set up in type in 1833 ;
but the appearance of the work was delayed by the death of
General Hardwicke, and by the chancery suit which his family
instituted.

The various works then in progress, founded on the materials
collected by him, were this year sold by public auction, and
having again come under my control, I hasten to fulfil in some
degree, the desires of my late friend, who made so many sacri-
fices for the improvement of his favorite study.

As the text had to be recomposed, references to modern
works, &c., have been added to make it consistent with the
present state of Entomology.

This work will be followed by : —

1. The Ornithology of China, illustrated with Plates, by W.
Swainson, Esq., F.R.S.

2. The Spiders of Nepal, illustrated with numerous Plates.

3. The Fungi of Nepal, with numerous Plates, and some
other works selected from General Hardwicke’s collection.

JOHN EDWARD GRAY.

British Museum,

1st September, 1846.

EXPLANATION PLATES.

Tab, 1.

2.

3, f. 1.

■ f. 2.

4, f. 1.

f. 2.

5, f. 1.

f. 2.

f. 3.

6, f. 1,3.

f. 2.

7, f. 1.

f. 2.

8, f. 1.

f. 2.

9, f. 1.

f. 2.

f. 3.

10, f. 1,2.

11,

12, f. 1.

f. 2.

f. 3.

f. 4.

13, f. i, 2.

14.

15, 16.

Papilio Minereus

Philoxenus

Machaon

Glycerion

Parnassius Hardwickii
Papilio Agestor
Rhodocera Rhamni, var.
Colias Edusa

■ Neriene

Pieris Brassicw

Napi

Thisbe

Orinoma Damaris
Pieris Agathon

■ Belladonna

Danais Melanippe

Tytia

Hestia Eudora
Adolias Dirtsea
Argynnis Children i
x\dolias nicea

Godartii

Paphia F abia ( larvae ) .
Libythea Myrrha
Adolias Doubledayii

F raneiae

Saturnia Certhia.

DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW LEPIDOPTERA.

PAPILIONIDJE.

Papilio Minereus, Tab. 1.

Pap. alis repandis nigrescentibus ; anticis inter nervos strigis
atris ; posticis caudatis macula in medio crassa alba a ner-
vis interrupts maculisque sex rubris.

Papilio Minereus, G. R. Gray , Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p. 32.
Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 9.

P. Latreillii, Don. Nat. Rep. pi. 140.

P. Philoxenus, (female) Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 264.

Fore-wings black, with darker rays between the nervures ; the
hinder wings black, tinged with brown at the base with a large
white spot in the centre, divided by the nervures, five spots and
the apex of the tail, red.

Under surface similar to the upper, but paler.

Expanse of wings five inches.

Inhab. Nepal.

Papilio Philoxenus, Tab. 2.

Pap. alis repandis nigrescentibus ; anticis inter nervos strigis
atris; posticis dentatis caudatis macula alba versus angulum
anticum maculisque quinque rubris.

Papilio Philoxenus, G. R. Gray , Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p. 32.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF

— Boisd. Spec . Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 264. Doubl. List Lepid. Ins.
Brit. Mus. 1. p. 9.

Fore-wings black, with darker rays between the nervures; the
hinder wings black, with a large spot towards the anterior angle,
and four irregular spots along the margin and one on the apex
of the tail, red.

Under surface similar to the upper, but much paler.

Expanse of wings nearly five inches.

Inliab. Nepal.

Papilio Glycerion, Tab. 3. f. 2.

Pap. alis viridiscentibus fasciis nigris ; posticis caudatis angulo
anali nigro lunulis tribus cseruleis strigaque flava.

Papilio Glycerion, G. R. Gray , Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p. 32.
Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 247. Westw. Arc. Ent. pi. 55.
Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 8.

Fore- wings greenish white, with short longitudinal black bands
in front and three interrupted marginal ones, the first of which
is broad and bifid anteriorly ; the hinder-wings greenish white,
with three interrupted bands on the outer margin, the anal angle
and the tail black, the former marked with a curved yellow line
somewhat in the form of a reversed V and with three blue lunes.

Under surface like the upper, but paler, more banded on the
hinder-wings and less black at the anal angle.

Expanse of wings three inches.

Inliab. Nepal.

Papilio Machaon, Linn. Tab. 3. f. 1.

Doubl. List Lepid . Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 15.

The Nepal specimens scarcely appear to differ from those
found in Europe.

Papilio Agestor, Tab. 4. f. 2.

Pap. alis griseis ; anticis venis margineque exteriore nigris
hac griseo-punctata ; posticis corticinis disco maculisque
griseis.

NEW LEPIDOPTERA.

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Papilo Agestor, G. R. Gray , Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p. 32.
Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 376. Westw. Arc. Ent. pi. 16.
f 2. Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 19.

Fore-wings gray, with the veins and the margin black, the
latter spotted with gray ; the hind wTings brownish red, wfith the
disc and spots gray.

Under surface similar to the upper, but paler.

Expanse of wings tliree inches, to three and three quarters.
Inliab. Sumatra.

Parnassius Hardwickii, Tab. 4. f. 1. la.

Parn. alis integerrimis albidis basi nigris ; anticis fasciis tribus
nigris quarum ultima maculis tribus rubris ocelloque rubro
nigro-circumdato in medio marginis posterioris ; posticis
medio ocellis duobus rubris nigro-circumdatis margineque
posteriore ocellis quinque cserulescenti-nigris pupillis albis;
subtus pallidioribus basi fasciaque rubris.

Parnassius Hardwickii, G. R. Gray , Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p.
32. Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 400. Doubl. List Lepid.
Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 21.

Fore-wings yellowish white, w7ith the base, the outer margin,
and three short bands in front, black ; the band nearest the sum-
mit with three red spots and the middle of the posterior margin
with a red spot, each of which is surrounded with black, also a
series of black spots even with the outer marginal band ; the hinder
wTings yellow7 white, wdth the base and internal margin black,
a red spot, surrounded with black in the middle of the anterior
margin, another in the middle of the wing, and five white-pu-
pilled black spots along the posterior margin.

Under surface much paler, but having the base and a short
transverse band on the hinder wings red.

Expanse of wing two inches and a half.

Inliab. Nepal.

Pieris Belladonna, Tab. 8. f. 2.

P. alis sub-oblongis integerrimis nigris maculis albidis ; anticis

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DESCRIPTIONS OF

subtus maculis apicalibus tribus flavis ; posticis basi mar-
gineque interiore flavis subtus maculis flavis.

Papilio Belladonna, Fab. Ent. Syst , iii. 1. p. 180. Donov.
Nat. Rep. pi. 35.

Pieris Horsfieldii, G. R. Gray , Gray’s Zool. Misc . 1. p. 32.
Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 448.

Pieris Belladonna, Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1.
p. 25.

Wings black with whitish dashes and spots ; the base of the
hinder wings and the interior margin yellow.

Under surface of the fore-wings black, spotted with white, and
with three apical yellow spots ; the hinder wings black, the in-
terior margin and spots yellow, with four central white spots.
Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inliab. Nepal.

Pieris Agathon, Tab. 8. f. 1.

P. alis sub-oblongis integerrimis brunneo-nigris maculis oblongis
albidis ; posticis subtus basi macula flava.

Pieris Agathon, G. R. Gray, Gray’s Zool. Misc. 1. p. 33.
Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 447. Doubl. List Lepid. Ins.
Brit. Mus. 1. p. 25.

Wings brownish black, with oblong whitish spots between
the nervures.

Under surface like the upper, except that there is a yellow
spot at the base of the hinder wings.

Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inliab. Nepal.

Mr. E. Doubleday considers that Pieris Phryxe of M. Bois-
duval is a variety of this species.

Pieris Thisbe, Tab. 7. f. 1.

P. alis sub-oblongis integerrimis concoloribus nigris ; anticis ma-
culis albis ; posticis fascia maculari flavescenti-alba basi
chermesinis.

NEW LEPIDOPTERA.

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Papilio Thisbe, Cram. t. 232,/. c.

Pieris Acalis, Godart, Ency. Method, p. 148.

Pieris Thisbe, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. 1. p. 449. Doubt.
List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 25.

Fore-wings black, spotted with white ; the hinder wings black,
with a broad yellowish white band from the interior margin
widening towards the anterior angle, three spots on the anterior
margin white and the base crimson.

Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inhab. Nepal.

Pieris Brassicse, Tab. 6. f. 1, 3.

Yar. Nepalensis, Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1, p. 32.

Pieris Napi, Tab. 6. f. 2.

Both these species are like those of Europe, but are of a
rather larger size.

Rhodocera Rhamni, var., Tab. 5. f. 1.

Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 37.

Colias Edusa, Tab. 5. f. 2.

(Var. near to C. Myrmidone), Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit.
Mus. 1. p. 41.

Colias Neriene, Tab. 5. f. 3.

Colias Neriene, Fisch. Entom. de la Russie , Lep. t. 11. f. 3,
4. Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 147.

DANAIDiE.

Danais Tytia, Tab. 9. f. 2.

D. alis integerrimis; anticis nigris maculis albis; posticis brun-
neo-rufis basi maculisque albis et macula anguli ani nigra.

Danais Tytia, G. R. Gray , Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus.
1. p. 50.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF

Fore-wings black, with white semi-transparent spots between
the nervures : the hinder wings brownish red, with the centre of
the nervures near the base, and spots semi-transparent white, also
a black spot at the anal angle.

Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inliab. Nepal.

Danais Melanippe, Tab. 9. f. 1.

D. alis integerrimis nigro-fuscis ; anticis disco fulvo fasciaque
maculari alba; posticis basi strigis punctisque albis.

Danais chirona, G. R. Gray.

P. Melanippe, Cram. t. 127./. A. B.

P. Hegesippus, Cram. t. 180./. A, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 56.

Danais Melanippus, Godart , Encyc. Method, p. 189.

Danais Hegesippus, Godart , Encyc. Method, p. 189.

Wings blackish brown ; the base to the centre of the fore-
wings fulvous, with a band of white irregular spots across near
the summit ; the hinder wings with the base, some longitudinal
short lines, and the minute marginal spots, white.

Expanse of wings three inches.

Inliab. Nepal.

Hestia Eudora, Tab. 9. f. 3.

Hest. alis elongato-angustatis integerrimis cinerascentibus ;
utrisque venis macula in medio maculisque marginalibus
nigris.

Idea Eudora, G. R. Gray.

Idea Daos, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. t. 24./. 3.

Hestia Daos, Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 52.

Wings grayish white, with the nervures a central spot and
two series of spots, black, one row between the nervures and the
outer margin ; the hinder wings of the same colour, with a large
central and three rows of small spots, black, the spots of the first
row round, of the second somewhat oblong and touching the
margin, and the third on the nervures along the margin.

Expanse of wings four inches.

Inliab. Sumatra.

NEW LEPIDOPTERA,

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NYMPHALIDiE.

Argynnis Childreni, Tab. 11.

A. alis subrotundatis subdentatis fulvis nigro-maculatis ; posticis
margine posteriori cseruleo subtus viridi-asneis strigis ar-
genteis.

Argynnis Childreni, G . R. Gray, Gray's Zool. Misc. 1. p. 33.
Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 68.

Wings fulvous, spotted with black ; the anal half of the pos-
terior margin of the hinder wings tinged with blue.

Under surface of the fore-wings with the basal portion crim-
son, spotted with black, an oblique central band which extends
along the margin to the posterior angle, and the summit pale
green with two short wrhite lines ; the hinder wings greenish
bronze wdth oblique silvery white bands, narrowly margined with
blue on each side.

Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inlfiab. Nepal.

Argynnis Isseea, Doubl.

A. Doubl. List Lepid . Lns. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 68.

Vanessa Calliroe.

Papilio atalanta, Cram. t. 84./. E. F.

Vanessa Calliroe, Boisd., Doubl. List Lepid. Lns. Brit. Mus.
1. p. 78.

Vanessa Vulcania, Godart, Encyc. Method . p. 320.

Vanessa Cardui, var.

Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 79.

Vanessa

Vanessa Flacilla, Doubl.

Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. l.p. 82.

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DESCRIPTIONS OF

Adolias Dirtea, Tab. 10. f. 1, 2.

A. alis repandis supra nigris, fascia postica ca3rulescenti-alba,
subtus corticinis maculis indistinctis.

Femina , alis fusco-nigris maculis flavis; posticis subtus cinereis

albo-maculatis.

Papilio Dirtea, Fabr. Ent. Syst . iii. 1. p. 59. Jones, Icon. ined.
65./. 1. (?).

Aconthea Boisduvalii, G. R. Gray .

Adolias Boisduvalii, Boisd. Spec. Gen. Lepid. t. 8 ./. 2.
Adolias Dirtea, Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 104.

Wings of the male black, with the outer margin of both wings
margined with purplish silvery white commencing in a point at
the apex of the fore-wings, gradually becoming broader towards
the anal angle, and spotted with black.

Under surface reddish brown, with indistinct spots, and the
posterior half of the fore- wings purplish.

Expanse of wings three inches and three quarters.

Wings of the female, brownish black spotted with yellow ; the
under surface of the fore-wings like the upper, but paler ; the
hinder wings are light silvery cinereous spotted with white.
Expanse of wings four inches and three quarters.

Inhab. Sumatra.

Adolias Francise, Tab. 14.

A. alis repandis olivaceo-viridibus disco strigis nigris utrinque
fascia maculari in medio et serie macularum marginalium ;
posticis maculis duabus albis.

Aconthea Francise, G. R. Gray.

Adolias Franciae, Doubt. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 104.

Wings olive green with a spotted band down the centre of
each wing somewhat in the form of a V, also two white spots
near the summit of the fore-wings, and a series of white lines

NEW LEPIDOPTEKA.

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along the margin of the wings, and a series of black lines inte-
riorly.

Under surface marked like the upper side, but of a cinereous
colour, with a spot of black at the posterior angle of the fore-
wings.

Expanse of wings three inches and a half.

Inhab. Nepal.

Adolias Doubledayii, Tab. 13.

A. alis repandis olivaceo-viridibus ; anticis fascia maculari macu-
lisque duabus ; posticis maculis tribus in medio marginis
anterioris albis.

Aconthea Epiona, G. R. Gray.

Adolias Doubledayi, Boisd. Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit.
Mus. 1. p. 104.

Wings olive-green with black in the costal nervure ; the fore-
wings with a spotted white band across the middle, from the
middle of the anterior margin towards the posterior angle, and
two white spots near the summit; the hinder wings with three
spots in the centre of the anterior margin.

Under surface like the upper, but of a cinereous colour.
Expanse of wings four inches.

Inhab. Nepal.

Adolias nicea, Tab. 12. f. 1.

A. alis fusco-nigris; anticis disco strigis tribus csemleis et seriebus
duabus punctorum alborum maculis nigris intermediis in-
terne csemlescenti marginatis ; posticis serie lunularum cae-
rulescentium fasciaque macularum alb arum pupillis nigris
marginatis ocello anguli ani bipupillato.

Aconthea nicea, G. R. Gray.

Adolias nicea, Doubl. List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 105.

Wings brownish black, the fore-wings with three blue lines in
the costal nervure and two rows of white spots on the outer
margin, between which are placed a row of black spots margined
interiorly with blue lunes, the hinder wings with a row of blue

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DESCRIPTIONS OF

lunes and a row of large white spots along the margin, tinged
interiorly with blue and with black spots in their centre, but the
one at the anal angle contains two black spots.

Under surface of the wings brownish black, the fore-wings
with three blue lines in the costal nervure and three rows of
small spots on the outer margin : the first and third rows white :
the intermediate row blue, and rather smaller ; the hinder wings
with minute blue spots scattered over the surface and a white
line along the posterior margin cut by the nervures.

Expanse of wings two inches and a half.

Inhab. Nepal.

Adolias Godartii, Tab. 12. f. 2.

A. alis repandis supra fusco-nigris, subtus dilute corticinis ;
anticis supra disco lineis sex nigris ; utrisque fascia postica
margin ali cserulescenti-alba ; anticis subtus disco lineis
quinque nigris.

Nymphalis lapis, var., Godart.

Aconthea Godartii, G. R. Gray.

Aconthea Cocytina, Hors/. Zool. Jour. v. pi. 4 ./ 3. 3a.

Wings brownish black, with six darker lines in the costal ner-
vure ; the outer margins of all the wings are bordered with a
bluish silvery white band edged with black, fringed with white,
commencing in a point at the apex of the fore-wings and en-
larging towards the anal angle.

Under surface brownish yellow marked in the costal nervure
with five black lines.

Expanse of wings two inches and a half.

Inhab. Sumatra.

SATYRID^.

Orinoma Damaris, Doubly Tab. 7. f. 2. 2a.

P. alis integerrimis flavescenti-albis venis fasciisque marginali-
bus brunneis ; anticis disco aurantio maculis duabus nigris.

Pieris Damaris, G. R. Gray .

NEW LEPIDOPTERA.

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Satyrus ? Damaris, Doubl . List Lepid. Ins. Brit . Mus. 1. p.
122.

Wings yellowish white, with the veins and marginal bands
brown ; the costal nervure of the fore-wings orange, with two
black spots in the middle.

Under surface paler.

Expanse of wings three inches.

Inhab . Nepal.

LIBYTHEID^E.

Libythea Myrrha, Tab. 12. f. 4.

L. alis fusco-nigris ; anticis fascia transversali maculisque dua-
bus ; posticis fascia crassa transversali in medio fulvis.

Libythea Myrrha, Godart, Encycl. Method, p, 171. Doubl.
List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1. p. 146. Hubner's Zut.f 789 —
790.

Wings brownish black ; the fore-wings with a transverse ful-
vous band in the centre, commencing from a point at the base
and enlarging towards but not touching the outer margin and
two large fulvous spots at the summit ; the hinder wings with a
transverse broad fulvous band in the centre not touching the
outer margin.

Expanse of wings two inches.

Inhab. Nepal.

BOMBYCID^E.

Saturnia Certhia, Tab. 15, 16.

Alis rotundatis badiis ; anticis basi transverse nigro-fasciatis in
medio nigro maculatis apice in dimidio posteriori lineis nu-
merosis angustis subundulatis nigris ; posticis nigris margine
lato posteriori flavescente lineis angustissimis undulatis
numerosissimis nigris notato.

Bombyx Certhia,jFh£r. Ent. Syst. iii. p. 412.

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NEW LEPIDOPTERA.

Phalaena maxima e Chusan, Petiver , Gaz . t. 18 .f 3. ?

Bombyx Wallichii, Gray , Zool. Misc. 1. p. 39.

Bombyx spectabilis, Hope , Linn. Trans, xviii. p. 443, pi. 31,
/ 3.

Wings rounded, fore-wings above bay black-spotted, black
cross-banded at the base, the hinder half of the outer end with
numerous parallel slightly waved narrow lines ; the hinder wings
above black with a broad yellowish margin, varied with nu-
merous parallel wavy blackish lines ; wings beneath black with
a broad yellow margin varied with very narrow obscure wavy
lines; antennae pale brown, strongly pectinated; the body black
with the abdominal rings brown-edged.

Expanse of wings six inches.

Inhab. Nepal.

NEWMAN, PRINTER, DEVONSHIRE STREET, RISHOPSGATE.

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