A RAKE BUTTEKFLY. 



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Generally, the colours of this genus are black and red of some 

 shade. In some, however, a vivid green is substituted for the 

 red. Catagramma Mionina, an insect from New Granada, has 

 an orange patch on the upper "wings and a shining emerald patch 

 on the lower pair ; while one species in the British Museum, as 

 yet without a name, has the patch on the lower wings blue 

 instead of green. 



The extremely rare insect which is here figured is not in the 

 British Museum. It was captured by Mr. Bates, who named 



Fig. 345. — Ageronia Alicia. Upper side. 

 (Slaty green and black.) 



it after his daughter. The following is his description of the 

 Butterfly and its habits:— 



" Slaty green, silky. Fore wings, above, with many black or 

 dusky variously shaped spots, nearly all of which are margined 

 with a paler hue. Besides these dark spots, there are ten or 

 twelve pale brown spots, one or two between each of the longi- 

 tudinal nervures. Margins of the wings black. 



" Hind wings with a row of black eyes running parallel with 

 the margin and edged with green — some of them have slaty 

 irreen pupils. 



