THE KALLIMAS. 



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patch is so large that it occupies almost one-third of the wing. 

 In the British Museum there is a specimen from Plettenberg 

 Bay, which has two dark spots on the yellow patch. Near the 

 base of the wing is an oval patch of blue, which in some speci- 

 mens takes a purple cast. Beneath, the colour of the insect 

 very closely resembles that of our Meadow Brown Butterfly, and 

 there is a large eye-like spot on the upper wings. 



This genus has a very wide range of residence. There is, 

 for example, one species, Junonia Orithyia, which is found in 

 Northern Australia, the Celebes, China, Japan, Northern India, 

 West of the Nile, and East Africa. This insect has a greenish 

 tinge, glossed with blue on the lower wings. On the lower pair 

 there are two large eyes, and on the upper, one large and one 

 small eye. 



The two very remarkable insects which are here shown are 

 so well described by Mr. Wallace, in his " Malay Archipelago," 



Fig. 340.— Kallima Inachis. 

 (Brown, black, and orange.) 



that I cannot do better than transfer his description to these 

 pages. There are many species of Kallima, most of which are 



