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followed by rows of more or less continuous yellowish spots 

 partly bordered with blue. Towards the hinder angle of the 

 fore-wings are two blue lunules, bordered with black and yel- 

 low, and on the hind-wings is a sub-marginal row of violet 

 ocellated spots, preceded and followed by a row of yellow 

 lunules. The tails are rather short and slender, the first 

 longest. The body is dark brown above, with four white 

 spots on the head ; beneath it is yellowish. The antennas arc 

 black, with the palpi yellow beneath. 



The female, described by Fabricius under the name of 

 Papilio marica, and correctly stated by him to come from 

 Africa, is brown above, with a white band and white spots on 

 the fore-wings, and some blue and white spots towards the 

 margins of the hind-wings. 



CHARAXES ETHEOCLES. 



{Plate XXVII. , Fig. 3.) 



Papilio etheocks, Cram., Pap. Exot., ii., pi. 119, figs. D. E. 



(i777)- 

 Nymphalis etheocks, Godart, Enc. Meth., ix., p. 355, no. 17 



(1823). 

 The female of this Butterfly was first brought from Sierra 

 Leone. It expands about three and a half inches, and is of a 

 shining bluish colour above, while across the middle of the wings 

 runs a broad white band, with greenish reflections. On the 

 fore-wings this band is divided into spots, and commences on 

 the costa with a row of four small ones in a line with the outer 

 limit of the band. At and above the end of the cell, beyond 

 the level of the inner edge of the band, is another row of three 

 small spots, and there is a detached one in the upper part of 

 the cell at about two-thirds of its length. The portion of the 

 hind-wings beyond the hand is blackish, bordered outside 



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