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Upper Side. Antennae black. Head dark brown, with four white spots on the crown. Thorax and 

 abdomen dark brown. Wings fine dark bkie, with a number of small light blue spots sprinkled on each 

 wing. The anterior being edged with a row of yellow spots. Posterior wings furnished with four short 

 tails and deeply scolloped, each scollop being edged with yellow. 



Under Side. Palpi and abdomen clay-coloured. Breast and legs light hair-coloured. Anterior wings 

 hair-coloured, with several small waved and irregular black lines half crossing them, from the anterior 

 edges to the middle of the wing, each line being edged with blue. A black kidney-shaped spot is also 

 >ituate next the lower corners, being also edged with blue. Posterior wings coloured as the anterior, 

 and furnished with four short tails, having several irregular black lines on them near the body, which 

 are edged with blue as on the anterior ones. 



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NYMPH ALIS PYRAMUS $. 



Piute XXIII. fig. 3, 4. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurua. Family : Nymphalklae, Swaiiis. 



Genus. Nymphalis, ia^r. Papilio (Pleb. rur.), l>r(«-i/. 



IVy.mi'HALis Pi'RA.MUs. Alis nigris (in mare supra violaceo-micantibus) anticis iitrinqiie fascia lata niiniata; 

 posticis subtus irroratis strigaque marginali coerulescenti. (Expans. Alar. 1 unc. 7J lin.) 



Syn. Papilio Pyramis, Fubr. Sp. Ins. 2. 130. 590. Ent. Syst. 111.1. p. 323. 223. 



Papilio (Pleb. rar.) Pjramus, Drury, App. vol. 3. StoU Siippl. Cramer, pi. 32./. 3. 3c. Eiic. Mith. ix. 

 p. 422. (Nyniphalis P.) Dononin Nat. Bepos. 1. 1. 3.f. 2. 2. 



Habitat ; Brazil, " Rio Janeiro, Mr. Bonif.;s, 1774" (Drm-y's MSS.). 



Upper Side. Antennae brown. Thorax and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings at the extremities 

 black, but ne.xt the body red-brown, the middle being occupied by a band which crosses them of a 

 beautiful red, extending to the middle of the posterior ones, the remaining parts of which are of a fine 

 blueish purple. 



Under Side. Palpi, legs, breast, and abdomen white. Anterior wings next the body yellowish 

 brown, the tips the same. The red band is not so strong on this side as on the upper, neither does it 

 extend to the inferior wings, but is bordered with black on that side near the tips. Posterior wings 

 yellowish brown, prettily variegated with very small lighter marks and spots, with a small faint blueish 

 indented line running along the external borders. 



The original Fabrician description of this insect is stated to have been derived from an 

 insect from Cayenne in the collection of Mr. Yeats ; and in the Fabrician detailed descrip- 

 tion, we find the wings characterized thus — " macula magna, in medio, fulva, anticse subtus 

 concolores." It appears, however, fi-om the observations of Donovan that the celebrated 

 iconographer Jones had made a drawing of Yeats's specimen, from which drawing 

 Donovan published his illustration of the species in the Naturalist's Repository, with the 

 following observations : — " There was a variety of this insect pretty nearly, but not exactly, 

 according with this m the collection of an old and well-known entomologist, a figure of 

 which appeared shortly after the publication of the Fabrician writings as the true Papilio 



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