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female is brown, with an additional blue spot on the costa of the 
fore wings near the tip, and one or two red spots bordered with 
black in the cell; the hind wings have three obscure narrow 
black stripes, the outermost sometimes marked with one or two 
blue spots, and having a row of black spots within it. The males 
of the other species are of a rich black, with a broad orange band, 
differing in shape and size, running across both wings, which is 
sometimes divided towards the tip of the fore wings, or else 
reduced to two large spots. The females generally resemble that 
of Myscelia Orsis, but the pale markings are sulphur-yellow, and 
there is a reddish spot below the tip on the fore wings and at the 
anal angle of the hind wings. The females of other species are 
black, with a yellow transverse band on the fore wings, and some 
rather indistinct yellowish macular stripes towards the hind 
margins of all the wings. The butterflies frequent forests, and 
the larve are armed with branching spines. 
Temenis Laothoé is a very variable species, expanding two or 
two inches and a quarter across the wings. The hind margin of 
the fore wings is concave below the tip, and the hind wings are 
slightly dentated and rather oval, sloping off to the anal angle. 
They vary from pale tawny, with the tip of the fore wings 
brownish and-blotched with tawny, and a black dot towards the 
anal angle of the hind wings, to rich tawny or orange, with the 
tip black, glossed with purple, and marked with orange; and 
sometimes the hind wings have a purple border varying in width, 
or are glossed with peach-colour over the orange; or may even be 
wholly blackish, with a white dot instead ofa black one. The 
under side of the hind wings is brownish, glossed with purplish, 
with an incomplete row of small submarginal eyes, with black 
and blue pupils, and there are some white blotches on the costa 
of the hind wings. The larva is covered with branching spines, 
and has two very long ones on the head. It is common in South 
America. 
The genus Nica resembles this, but the fore wings are broader 
in proportion and but slightly concave, and the hind wings project 
a little in the middle, making them more square. The species, 
too, are smaller, measuring only an inch and a half in expanse, 
or a little more. They are orange-tawny, with the tip of the fore 
wings blackish, with a yellow spot (N. Flavilla, from Brazil), or 
broadly black with (N. sylvestris, Upper Amazons), or without 
