1865.] 81 



rubbed off, and visible only at the apex of No, 43), Abdomen ovoid, 

 slightly elongated in the form of a truncated cone. Legs yellowish ; the 

 tibiae, spurs, and tarsi brownish, pilose externally ; the intermediate 

 legs not dilated. 



Madeira. 



This resembles the European species, but differs in the non- 

 dilated intermediate legs of the female. A. ciliatiis has also the 

 membrane of the wings slightly punctated. The colours of the body 

 are as in A. ciliatus ; those of the wings as in A. comatus, but the hairs 

 of the posterior wings are darker. 



No. 42-44 ? . 



Konigsberg. 



DESCEIPTION OF A NEW SPECIES OF MORPHO IN THE COLLECTION 

 OF THE BEITISH MUSEUM. 



BY A. G. BUTLEE, F.Z.S. 



MORPHO THETIS. 



Upperside. Front wings rich chocolate-brown, basal half glossed 

 with blue-green ; crossed in the middle by a broad, oblique, variable 

 metallic blue-green band, narrower above the cell ; a large, oblique, 

 marginal white spot on the anterior margin, above the end of the cell ; 

 a sub-marginal row of six white spots along the outer margin, diminish- 

 ing in size towards the anal angle, the second from the apex, much 

 larger than the others. 



Hind- wings rich chocolate-brown, crossed beyond the middle by a 

 broad, obhque, variable, blue-green band, broader above than below, 

 but, at its widest part, only two-thii'ds of the width of the band of the 

 front wing ; a small red spot, bordered with black, at the anal angle ; 

 cilia pale ochreous. 



Body brown, head and pro-thorax spotted with yellow. 

 Underside. Front wings dull chocolate-brown, interior margin broadly 

 clay coloured, glossed with violaceous ; crossed beyond the middle by 

 an oblique, irregular, deeply dentated, narrow band, pale ochreous 

 above, brighter in the middle, violaceous near the anal angle where it 

 terminates, beginning at the anterior margin, and strongly incurved 

 just below the end of the cell, more disconnected from below the cell 

 to the inner margin, intersected by the nervures ; two irregular pale 

 green bands within the cell, the outer one nearly crossing it ; a single 



