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pretty much as we find them in the authors, and, although it is 

 obvious, that they do not agree very well with the species we 

 have placed under it, yet there cannot be the slightest doubt of 

 the correctness of the reference. Perhaps the only striking 

 character by which the species may be separated from those of 

 the above mentioned genus, is that of the somewhat checkered 

 appearance of the inferior page of the posterior wings. A more 

 remarkable distinction may be observed in the larvae, which are 

 not armed with spines as in Argynnis, but are pubescent, with 

 small fleshy tubercles on the body ; the pupa is suspended by the 

 tail. 



The genus under the present name, was separated from the 

 Linnaean Papilio by Fabricius. 



Melit^e myrina. — Sjyecijic character. Wings slightly in- 

 dented, fulvous, with black spots and undulated lines ; beneath 

 with more than thirty silvery spots, and an ocellate spot near the 

 base of the inferior ones. 



Papilio myrina Cromer, ii. p. 141, pi, 189, fig. B. C. Fabr. 

 Ent. Emend, p. 145. Herbst, Natursyst. ix. p. 178, pi. 255, 

 fig. 3, 4. 



Desc. Wings fulvous, slightly indented on the exterior edges ; 

 superior wings with black, transverse, undulated, and interrupted 

 lines, occupying the basal portion to a considerable distance 

 beyond the middle, the first sublimate, the second double ; 

 towards the tip, a transverse series of black dots, then of black 

 angles, confluent with the block nodose edging ; inferior surface 

 paler, the series of black dots obsolete ; immediately before this 

 series, and near the anterior margin, are two somewhat silvery 

 spots ; a somewhat silvery spot within each of the black submar- 

 ginal angles, the margin destitute of black ; inferior wings with 

 two, much undulated, nearly parallel lines, from the middle of 

 the anterior margin curve round and terminate near the base, 

 near which they become confused, they enclose a black spot ; a 

 series of black dots, angles, and margin, as in the superior wings; 

 beneath tinged with ferruginous, and varied with ochreous spots, 

 with four transverse series of silvery spots ; the second series in- 

 terrupted by ochreous spots, between the first and second series 

 is a small silvery ocellate spot with a black pupil ; beyond the 

 third series, is a series of obsolete brown dots. 



