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OGYRIS. 



OGYRIS ABROTA. 1, 2. 



0. Damo. Boubleday. — Brit. Miis. Cat. 0. ^Ibrota. Westwood and Hewitsoii. — 



Gen. Dim: Lcj}. Vol. ii. PI. 75. 



Upperside. Male purple, the costal and outer margins of l)oth wings broadly 

 black, the costal margin of the anterior wing with three indistinct white marks near 

 the apex, the outer margin of the wing serrated very peculiarly. 



Underside. Anterior wing dark brown, the apex ashy grey undulated with 

 brown, the cell marked with a round spot and four lines of white. Posterior wing 

 clouded with various shades of grey and red-brown, marked wdth several curved black 

 lines, inclosing spots of darker colour, the base brown, with several curved lines of 

 black. 



Female. Upperside, anterior wing black, with a large central round yellow spot, 

 the base light brown. Posterior wing light In'own. Underside, as in the male, 

 except that the anterior wing is marked with the central yellow spot as above, and 

 that the posterior wing is more distinctly marked and clouded with purple. 



Expan. \yq in. Hab. Australia. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



Mr. Doubleday, in his list of Lepidopterous insects in tJie British Museum, took the male 

 and female of this for different species, calling the male O. Damo, the female 0. Abrota. Mr. 

 Westwood has adopted the latter name in the Genera of Diiu'nal Lepidoptera, wliero the female is 

 fitjured at Plate 7.5. 



OGYRIS ZOSINE. 3, 4. 



Upperside. Male purple, the costal and outer margins of both wings black, 

 the extreme margin white, the costal margin near the apex with three lines of white. 



Underside. Anterior wing brown, the centre blue, the apex and a triangular 

 transverse spot beyond the end of the cell ash-grey, the cell crossed by five lines of 

 white, the outer lines tinted with blue. Posterior wing clouded with brown and grey, 

 darkest at the base, crossed by several curved lines, some of which inclose oblong 

 spots of darker colour ; the anal angle, which is })rojected into a short tail, marked 

 by a black spot. 



Expan. 1^ in. Hab. Australia. 



In the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



