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not difficult to capture, as they have the habit of settling on 

 projecting branches of trees, and are not easily alarmed. 



Polygrapha, Schatz, is a new genus which has been formed 

 for a handsome Butterfly from Ecuador, described by Salvin 

 and Godman as Paphia cyanea. It measures nearly three 

 inches across the wings, which are much like those of a 

 Charaxes in shape. The fore-wings are pointed, with the 

 hind-margin oblique, but very slightly concave, and the 

 hind-wings with the hind-margin gradually curved, obtuse 

 at the anal angle, and with a moderately long slender pointed 

 tail below the middle of the hind-margin. The wings are of 

 a rich purple, with black borders, and are crossed by a paler 

 blue band running from the inner-margin of the hind-wings 

 to the middle of the fore-wings, and there are two detached 

 blue spots on the fore-wings opposite the outer half of the costa. 

 The under side is brown or grey, irrorated with black, and 

 with the hind-margin of the hind-wings yellowish-green, on 

 which stands a row of small black spots surmounted with 

 blue. 



SUB-FAMILY VII. MORPHIN/E. 



Egg — Globular, translucent, hard, not so high as wide, 

 smooth, or obscurely faceted. 



Larva. — Smooth or hairy, with a forked tail, and generally 

 with a bifid head. 



Pupa. —Stout, oval, with a bifid head. 



Imago — Of large or very large size ; palpi slender, and wings 

 broad, generally rounded and entire, or scalloped ; fore-wings 

 sometimes long ; hind-wings sometimes produced into a lobe, 

 but never tailed; almost always with large ocellated spots beneath. 

 Prevailing colours blue above, varying from almost white to 

 the most brillant sky-blue ; or marked with white, brown, and 



