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INSECTS ABROAD. 



almost luibrokeu outline of the upper pair. As may be seen by 

 the form of the abdomen, the specimen whose portrait is here 

 given was a female. 



Above, the colour of both pairs of wings is brown, each of the 

 lower wings having five ruddy crescents along the margin. If 

 held up to the light, the upper wings are seen to be almost trans- 

 parent. Below, the upper wings are brown, and the lower pair 

 are velvet-black, their opacity being thus accounted for. The 

 light-coloured marks along the margin are crimson. The 

 male is similar to the female, but is smaller, and is darker 

 coloured. 



The general outline of the wings in Papilio Jophon is very 

 similar to that of the preceding species. The colouring, how- 

 ever, is wholly different. 



Fia. 308. — Papilio Jophon. 

 (Black and scarlet.) 



The upper surface of the wings is sooty black, the nervures 

 being accompanied with stripes of silvery grey. Beneatli, the 

 colours are stiJl black giey, but on the margin of the lower 



