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INSECTS ABROAD. 



Below, it is quite as handsome as on the upper surface, the 

 colour being metallic blue-green, crossed with transverse black 

 bars. The under wings are copper-red in the centre, the rest 

 being emerald variegated with velvet-black spots. 



The insect is a native of Madagascar. 



The next species, Urania Sloanus, is an inhabitant of the 

 West Indies, and is quite as beautiful as the preceding insect. 



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Vic. 370. — Urania Slonmi!!. 

 (Blnck, emeraUl, gold, and crimson.) 



The upper wings are velvet-black, and next the base come five 

 narrow emerald bars. Then comes a broad bar of ruddy gold 

 extending across the centre of the wing, then a narrow bar of 

 the same colour, and lastly, a short stripe of emerald near the 

 tip. The lower wings are crimson glossed with gold and spotted 

 with black, while the tips are emerald -green . 



