28 Mr. Jjutler's Descriptions oj 



SUB-FAMILY MORPHINE. Butler. 



GENUS MORPHO. 



MorpJio Juturna, sp. nov. 



Ala3 supra cinereo-argeuteoe ; anticse costa, plaga cunei- 

 formi disco-cellulari, (in costam a macula alba interrupta,) 

 apice et margine externo, nigro-fuscis ; maculis sex sub- 

 margiiialibus rotundatis, tribus superioribus flavis, infe- 

 rioribus albis ; maculis sex miiioribus subgeminatis ante- 

 marginalibus fulvis : posticse margine latius nigrescente ; 

 maculis tribus disci superioris submarginalibus albis ; linea 

 marginal! nigra introrsum inter venas ferrugineo, extrorsum 

 a ciliis fuscis limitata ; margine abdominali oclireo-tincta. 



Alse subtus rufo-fuscte ; anticte fasciolis tribus obliquis 

 discoideis, (media latiore) fusco albidis ; striola pone cellam 

 undulata rufo-fusca per nebulam albidam errante ; area 

 interno-basali nigro-variegata ; plagis tribus lunularibus 

 (infra cellam aream basalem terminantibus) fusco albidis, 

 introrsum nigro-limitatis ; ocellis tribus discalibus con- 

 suetis ; fascia submarginali nigra, introrsum a plagis sub- 

 septem ochraceis semicircularibus limitata ; fascia mar- 

 ginali ferrugiuea a linea media nigra interrupta : posticae 

 area basali fusco-albido quadrate fasciolata ; ocellis tribus 

 subanalibus duobusque oblique infra costam positis, omnil)US 

 fuscis Cceruleo punctatis fulvo-cinctis nigro-circumcinctis et 

 fusco-zonatis ; stria submarginali fusca, introrsum albo 

 extrorsum ferrugineo limitata ; margine nigro a linea media 

 albida interrupto : exp. alar. unc. 6, lin. 4. 



Wings above silver grey : frontioings with the costa, a 

 wedge-shaped, disco-cellular patch (interrupted upon the 

 costa by a Avhite spot) the apex and outer margin black- 

 brown ; six submarginal round spots, the upper three yellow, 

 the lower white ; six smaller subgeminate nearly marginal 

 fulvous spots : liindivings witli the margin more broadly 

 blackish ; three submarginal white spots on the upper part 

 of the disc ; a marginal black line bounded internally 

 between the nervures with ferruginous, externally by the 

 brown fringe ; the aljdominal margin ochre tinted. 



Wings helow red-1)rown ; frontwings with three oblique 

 whitisli-l^rown discoidal bands (the centre one broader) ; 

 a waved red-brown streak beyond the cell wandering 



