Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..

Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1. eBook

John Lort Stokes
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 467 pages of information about Discoveries in Australia, Volume 1..

Anterior wings triangular, the outer and inner margins nearly equal, about two-thirds the length of the anterior.  Costal nervure two-thirds the entire length of the wing; subcostal nervule slightly deflected towards the end of the cell, throwing off its first nervule at about one-third of its length, the second about the middle of its course, the space between the origins of the second and third nervules not as long as that between the first and second, the fourth arising just before the end of the cell:  upper discocellular nervule very short, the second discoidal equidistant from the first discoidal and the third median nervule, the disco-cellular nervules almost atrophied; median nervule throwing off its first nervule not far from the base, the third nervule a little bent where the discocellular joins it, radial nervure running nearly parallel with the inner margin throughout its whole length, reaching the outer margin a little above the anal angle.  Posterior wings broad, semi-ovate, costal nervure long, sub-costal terminating in only two nervules, discoidal nervule nearly atrophied; discocellular the same, united with the third median nervule; cell rather large.  Base of these wings in the male with a strong bristle passing behind a strong corneous retinaculum, which arises from the anterior side of the sub-costal nervure.

Legs rather long; anterior tibiae with a curved spine on the inside, covered by the long scales of the tibiae, anterior tarsi twice the length of the tibiae, basal joint longer than the rest combined, second and third equal; the two combined equal to about two-thirds the length of the first, fourth and fifth very short, together about equal to the third.  Second pair with the tibiae about two-thirds as long as the tarsi, with numerous minute spines along their sides and two stout ones at the apex; joints of the tarsi having about the same relative proportions as in the anterior pair.  Posterior tibiae and tarsi nearly as in the second pair.  Claws of all the tarsi stout, simple.

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Euschemon rafflesia.

Hesp. rafflesia, McLeay, Appendix to King’s Survey of Australia, 463.

Anterior wings black above, with a transverse macular sulphur-coloured band beyond the middle, and a submarginal one, broadest towards the apex, composed of greenish atoms.  Posterior wings with a large oval sulphur-coloured spot in the cell, separated only by the median nervure from a smaller one on the abdominal margin near the base, and followed by a sub-trigonate one divided into three parts by the median nervules.  Below, the markings are nearly as above, with the addition of a greenish line along the costa of the anterior wings, bending downwards at its termination.  Posterior wings encircled by a marginal band of the same greenish colour.

Head black, orbits of the eyes and a line across the vertex white.  Palpi bright crimson except the last joint which is black.  Antennae black.  Thorax black.  Abdomen above black, the base and the edges of four of the segments whitish, last segment bright crimson; below, whitish at the base, crimson beyond the middle.

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