Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged (14752464705)

Brazilian Emerald Butterfly Leilus braziliensis (= Urania brasiliensis).
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Identifier: zoologicalillust03swain (find matches)
Title: Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities
Year: 1832-1833
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Bayfield, George Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Insects Mollusks Shells Zoology
Publisher: London : Baldwin & Cradock



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apidity, and perform, like their prototypes the Swallows,annual migrations. When at rest, the anterior wings areflat or horizontal, but only slightly spread. The presentspecies appears confined to Surinam. Modern systematists have been peculiarly unfortunate inthe location and construction of this group; while the nameof Urania, bestowed upon it by Fabricius, has long beenappropriated to a genus of plants. Linnaeus, more correctly,placed it with the genuine Pap iHo ties; a station which isconfirmed by the details of its structure : the anterior feet,like those of Leptocircus, figured at pi. 106, being providedwith that short spiney process, which is a peculiar distinc-tion of this sub-family. The analogies which result fromthis location of Leilus are beautiful, and almost intermina-ble. It is the representation of the Noctuuhv and of theJJesperidce in its own circle ; and of the fissirostral tribeof birds ; all these being modifications of the natatorialtype of the vertebrata, y * 125
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(/EILJTS, Brcurihenfis S* 126 L E I L U S Braziliensis.Brazilian Emerald Butterfly. Sur-Generic Character. Wings when at rest, horizontal, slightly expanded; posterior fur-nished with acute tails. Palpi short, porrect; the last jointnearly naked, projecting heyond the head, but shorter than thesecond joint. Tibia of the anterior feet, spined in the middle:claws very small. Antenna filiform, thickened in the middle;the tips bending outwards, but not uncinate. Sw. Specific Character. Wings black, varied with lines and bands of golden green : pos-terior wings tailed, the green spots round the margin dividedand insulated ; the tails black, with a narrow white edge. In Mus, Britt. Nost. This species, hitherto confounded with that peculiar toSurinam, is found only in Brazil; but its precise geographicrange, in that vast empire, has not been correctly ascertained.We had the pleasure of capturing several specimens inLat. 8,24, S. in the vicinity of Pernambuco, where greatnumbers appear during