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angle more or less prominent ; but more frequently the wings 

 are more or less angulated, with a tail at the outer angle. 



Some of the species are pale coloured above, such as A. 

 electra (Westwood), from Mexico, a straw-coloured Butterfly 

 with black borders, and the hind-wings more or less tinged 

 with tawny ; the fore-wings are hooked, and the hind-wings 

 have a spatulate tail, the anal angle also being produced into 

 a short tail. But most of the species are black, generally blue, 

 green, or purple at the base, and often crossed with blue bands 

 beyond ; in A. cyanea (Godman and Salvin), from Ecuador, the 

 male, except on the black borders, is of the richest purple, with 

 a broad blue sub-marginal band from the inner-margin of the 

 hind-wings to the middle of the fore-wings, and two blue spots 

 towards the outer half of the costa. The hind-margin of the 

 fore-wings is oblique, and the tail of the hind-wings rather 

 short and pointed. 



Another very handsome species is A. panariste (Hewitson), 

 from Bolivia, in which the black wings are richly glossed with 

 deep blue, and there is a broad yellow space on the costa of the 

 hind-wings. In shape it resembles A. electra, but the fore- 

 wings are longer and more sickle-shaped. 



Other species are red, often more or less glossed with purple, 

 sometimes on the fore-wings only, and sometimes on all the 

 wings. 



The under sides are generally grey, ochreous, or brown, 

 mottled with darker, and occasionally crossed by a dusky line. 

 The Butterflies are forest insects of strong flight, and may be 

 found settled on the trunks of trees, sucking the sap. They 

 appear to represent the genus Charaxes in the New World, 

 exhibiting the same variations in outline, and some of the 

 species being very similarly coloured ; but the correspondence 

 is with African and not with Indian species, and is chiefly to 

 be seen in some of the blue forms, such as Charaxes ethalicn, 

 Boisd., &c 



