THE URANIA MOTHS. 



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metallic brilliance, and shifting about with every change of 

 light. The ground colour of the wings is velvet-black, varie- 

 gated with glittering emerald-green marks disposed as seen in 

 the illustration. The lower wings are also velvet-black, but 

 they are crossed in the centre by a broad bar of singularly bright 



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Fig. 378. — Urania orientalis. 

 (Black, emerald, and crimson.) 



colouring. First it is bright blue, which changes to green in the 

 middle of the wing, and that again to crimson. At the anal 

 angle of the wing there is in recent specimens a large eye-like 

 patch of fiery crimson, but unfortunately the colour is as evanes- 

 cent as it is splendid, and a specimen with this crimson patch in 

 good condition is very rarely seen. 



