white, forehead and vertex black, antenna black.
Thorax black, with two transverse lines anteriorly and the sides
posteriorly yellowish, legs black, spotted with white, densely clothed
with fulvous hairs at the base of the coxae. Abdomen black, last segment
bright fulvous.
Female with markings rather more blue than in the male.
Exp. alar. 1 un. 9 lin.
Habitat: New Holland.
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Glaucopis ganymede.
All the wings black, the anterior with a small diaphanous spot near the
base, below the median nervure; a larger one before the middle extending
from the sub-costal to the radial nervure, divided by the median nervure
into two unequal portions, the extremity of the cell marked by a
crescent-shaped, metallic blue spot, beyond which are two diaphanous
spots, one placed just below the origin of the second sub-costal nervule,
the other much larger, divided by the last median nervule. Posterior
wings with a white, partly diaphanous spot, close to the base, and a
transverse diaphanous band a little beyond the middle.
Head black, face and orbits of the eyes white, antennae and palpi black.
Thorax black, legs black except the coxae which are white. Abdomen
crimson, the first and second segments both above and below, the third
above, of a sooty black, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh margined with
black above, anteriorly, eighth entirely crimson.
Female wanting the small spot near the base of the anterior wings, the
third segment of the abdomen slightly bronzed, coxae black.
Exp. alar. 2 unc. 6 lin.
Habitat: New Holland.
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APPENDIX.
LIST OF FIGURES ON INSECTS PLATE 3.
Figure 1. 2. Euschemon rafflesia (MacLeay).
a. b. Head of Euschemon rafflesia (MacLeay).
c.* Base of wings of Euschemon rafflesia (MacLeay) to show the bristle
and retinaculum.
d. Anterior wings of Euschemon rafflesia (MacLeay).
Figure 3. Glaucopis ganymede, Doubleday.
Figure 4. Agarista leonora, Doubleday.
e. Anterior wing of Agarista leonora, Doubleday.
Figure 5. Synemon sophia (White).
Figure 6. Synemon theresa, Doubleday.
Figure 7. Synemon mopsa, Doubleday.
f. Palpus of Synemon.
g. Head and antennae of Synemon (Syn. Sophia.)
h. Head and antennae of Synemon.
i. k. Head of Synemon.
l. Base of wings of Synemon, to show the bristle and retinaculum in the
male.
m. Base of wings of Synemon, to show the bristle and retinaculum in the
female.
n. Anterior wing of Synemon.
(*Footnote. The retinacu
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