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it approaches the tip : the lower wings are 

 of the same green colour, edged with velvet 

 black, and marked by four spots of that 

 colour ; while at the upper part of each, or 

 at the part where the upper wings lap over? 

 is a squarish orange coloured spot ; the thorax 

 is black, with sprinklings of lucid green in 

 the middle, and the abdomen is of a bright 

 yellow, or gold colour. On the under side of 

 the animal the distribution of colours is 

 somewhat different, the green being disposed 

 in central patches on the upper wings, and 

 the lower being marked by more numerous 

 black as well as orange spots. The red, or 

 bloody spots on each side the thorax, are not 

 always to be seen on this, the Trojan monarch. 

 This is a very rare insect, and is a native of 

 the island of Amboyna. 



The Menelaus, may be considered as one 

 of the most splendidly beautiful of the But- 

 terfly tribe. Its size is large, measuring, 

 when expanded, about six inches ; and its 

 colour is the most brilliant silver blue, that 

 imagination can conceive ; changing, accord- 

 ing to the variation of the light, into a deeper 

 blue, and in some lights to a greenish cast : 



