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BUTTERFLY. 
division, and is a beautiful species Avith orange- 
yellow wings deeply bordered with black. 
Of the Danai Festivi the P. Midamus may 
serve as an example; an elegant Asiatic species, 
of a black colour, with a varying blue lustre to- 
wards the tips of the upper wings, which are mark- 
ed by many white spots, while the lower pair are 
streaked longitudinally with numerous white lines, 
and edged with a roAv of white specks. 
P. Sophorte is also of this tribe: it is of a fine 
brown colour, with a bright orange-ferruginous 
bar across the upper wings, and a more obscure 
one of similar colour round the low^er part of the 
under wings : it is a native of South-America, and 
according to Madam Merian, proceeds from a 
large rufous caterpillar marked above by narrow 
longitudinal white stripes. 
Among the Nymphales Gemmati few can ex- 
ceed in elegance the P. lo or Peacock Butter- 
fly, a species by no means uncommon in our 
own country: the ground-colour of this insect is 
orange-brown, with black bars separated by yellow 
intermediate spaces on the upper edge of the su- 
perior wings, while at tlie tip of each is a most 
beautiful large eye-shaped spot, formed by a com- 
bination of black, brown, and blue, with the addi- 
tion of whitish specks : on each of the lower wings 
is a still larger eye-shaped spot, consisting of a 
black central patch, varied with blue, and sur- 
rounded by a zone of pale brown, which is itself 
deeply bordered with black: all the wings are 
scolloped or denticulated. The caterpillar is 
