202 [February, 



drawer N, watching the eflfect through the glass slide 0, and finally, by 

 withdrawing the latter and lifting out the Venetian apparatus, securing 

 such as we may require. 



Of course the trap may be of any dimensions, but tlie two following 

 sizes are suggested as likely to prove most serviceable. A portable 

 travelling one (of — say — a cubic foot, with small doubling-up tripod 

 stand, leather or cloth cover, and top handle), for woi'king the rides of 

 woods and other outdoor situations. The other, adapted to fit the 

 space left by the opened sash of a window. 



Kentish Town, January, 1866. 



DESCRIPTIONS or SOME CURIOUS VARIATIONS in the GENUS MORPHO. 

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



MoEPHO TEEEESTEis — M. Menelatjs, var. 



(^ . Upperside. Variable metallic purplish-blue, glossed with 

 green ; fore-wings, anterior and posterior margins brown ; two white 

 spots on the anterior margin, one just beyond the cell, the other near 

 the apex ; a similar small indistinct sub-apical spot ; hind-margin si- 

 nuated, the cilia in the centre of each sinuation white. 



Hind-wings, outer margin brown, sinuations as in fore-wings. 



Under-side. Eich chocolate brown ; fore- wings paler beyond the 

 middle ; a pale brown elbowed marking crossing the cell just beyond 

 the middle, and a second similar mai'k at the end of the cell ; a sub- 

 marginal row of six spots a little way from the hind-margin, the upper- 

 most (me white, the second, third, and sixth pale brown, the fourth and 

 fifth ocellate, black, pupillated with white, and surrounded wdth dull 

 red ; hind-margin reddish-ochreous, bounded and intersected by narrow 

 sub-marginal brown lines. 



Hind- wings, with outer margin as in fore-wings, four ocelli placed 

 as in M. Menelaus, the three lower ones increasing in size towards the 

 outer margin. 



Habitat : Villa Nova. 



The principal difierence between this insect and M. Menelaus con- 

 sists in the absence of any bronze markings on the under-side. 



MoEPHO Melanippe — M. Mekelatjs, var. 



(J . Upper-side as in M. Menelaus. 



Under-side. Chocolate-brown ; fore*wings v/ith an irregular, in- 

 distinct bx'oken bronzy streak, extending from the anterior margin just 



