of the Amazon Valley. 341 
subapical spot of fore wing forming a short belt of a greyish hue. Tails 
of hind wing broad and subspatulate. Beneath, pale greyish, irrorated 
with dusky; a row of small submarginal ocelli on the hind wings. 
This species is closely allied to P. Morvus of Fabricius, but it is 
distinguished by the ferruginous hue of the limb of the wings, above, 
and of the whole under surface. It resembles much P. Otrere of 
Hiibner. It is a very common species in the woods of Pard and the 
Lower Amazons. I have examined a great number of specimens, and 
find them to agree pretty closely with each other and the description 
here given. I have not much doubt that this is the species con- 
templated by Cramer in his figure of P. Leonida given in pl. 388. 
fig. c,D; but the fore wing is represented as faleate to a very high 
degree—a character which our species does not present; it is there- 
fore unadvisable to apply Cramer’s name to the species. 
159. Paphia Morvus, Fabricius. 
3. Papilio Morvus, Fab. Syst. Ent. 484. 184 (1775). 
, Fab. Syst. Ent. 1. i. 73. 227. 
—— Arachne, Cramer, 48 a, B (?) (1779). 
Q. —— Laértes, Cramer, 73-0, D (1779). 
This species agrees very well in colours with the figure given by 
Cramer ; but it differs in having the fore-wing inner margin deeply 
emarginate (a character given in the Fabrician diagnosis), the 
emargination in the Cramerian figure being very slight. The wings 
in the male are, above, deep bluish black, with a rather well-limited 
blue basal spot, especially in the fore wing. The fore wing is mode- 
rately faleate, the emargination is rather shallower than in P. Por- 
phyrio, and the tails are sublinear and pointed. Beneath, the wings 
are of a glossy dark-brown hue, sprinkled with whitish atoms, and 
streaked as in P. Porphyrio. 
This is also a very common species in various parts of the Lower 
and Upper Amazons. It varies considerably in the number and size 
of the subapical blue spots of the fore wing. P. Iphis (Latr.), with 
which Godart confounded it, is distinguished by the spatulate form 
of the tails in the males. 
160. Paphia Basilia, Cramer. 
Papilio Basiha, Cramer, 329, v. 
Upper Amazons, at St. Paulo; rare. 
The fore-wing hind margin is slightky emarginated, and the species 
has many points of resemblance to P. Morvus, notwithstanding the 
minute size of the tails. 
