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MERISTIC VARIATION. 



[part I. 



Fig. 80. Morpho octavia: abnormal specimen having ocelli on both sides in 

 the positions a 1 and g 1 (where ocelli normally are in M. sulkowskii). 

 (From a specimen in the collection of Messrs Godman and Salvin.) 



*450 M. menelaus </ : ten normals, and two having no a ; one 

 having left a absent and right a very faint, c and g both absent. 

 In addition to these, the specimen shewn in Fig. 81, having no c 



Fig. 81. Morpho menelaus : abnormal specimen having no ocellus c in rt. f. w. 

 In left f. w. there is a small ocellus c, but it wants the two innermost colours of a 

 normal ocellus. Compared with a normal ocellus, as that at b of the same wing, the 

 abnormal has only the zones 1, 2 and 3, the latter colour forming the centre. 



Fig. 78, I. may be taken as approximately shewing the normal for this species 

 also. 



(From a specimen in the collection of Messrs Godman and Salvin.) 



