Papilio (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... between it and the t. p. line is a brownish shade; the marginal line is without dentations, and not scalloped as in Clintonii; sub-marginal space streaked with black along veins i and 2, but not on veins 6 and 7 as in Clintonii; the median shade is very heavy and extends from the costa to the lower anterior border of the reniform; the reniform is brown, bordered posteriorly with white, and anteriorly by the median shade; sub-reniform hardly visible. Black basal dash of Clintonii totally wanting. Secondaries; the median band is not contracted near the centre, as in Clintonii; the marginal band is very'nearly twice as wide as that of Clintonii, and the separation near the anal-angle not so well marked as in Mr. Strecker's figure, or in the examples of Clintonii that I have seen; but not entirely connected, as in Mr. Grote's figure, Pro. Ent. Soc. of Phil., vol. 3, plate 3, fig. 4; the marginal yellow spot shows but slightly; the fringe is not as deep as in Clintonii, and is much darker. Under surface; bands all much wider than in Clintonii, and consequently giving it a much darker appearence; the marginal band not showing the separation. This var. is described from one 9 taken at sugar, June 18th, i83o. I took a and? Clintonii the same evening, and another 6" the following evening; those being the first and and last of that species taken in this locality. Though differing considerably from Clintonii, I am satisfied it is only a var. of that species. I sent my type of Helene to Mr. Hy. Edwards last winter, and he said he had never seen one like it, and did not know what it was. On the strength of his assertion, I have named and described it. During the past season I took two specimens of Catocala Robinsoni, var. Curvata. French; both of them were?. FO...