THE ERATETNAS. 



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Fig. 445. — Erateina regina. Upper surface. 

 (Copper-red, silver and gold, and white.) 



the illustration. Round the edge of the wing are alternate 

 spots of very dark brown and bright yellow, so that the under 

 surface of the insect is 

 very much handsomer 

 than the upper. 



The last of these beau- 

 tiful insects is Erateina 



regina, one of the rarest 



and, as far as is at present 



known, the handsomest of 



the group. There is only 



a single specimen in the 



British Museum. It is a 



native of Bogota. 



Although the upper 



surface of this insect is 



handsome, it has not much 



to distinguish it from the 



other species of the same genus. The upper wings are rich 



copper red, becoming darker towards the edge, and there is no 



green mark across them 

 as is usually the case with 

 the Erateinas. The lower 

 wings are olive brown for 

 half their length, when 

 they are crossed by a 

 narrow wavy line of 

 bluish white, followed by 

 a very wide bar of black- 

 brown, edged with snowy 

 \ white. 



On the under surface 

 the upper wings are sil- 

 very grey at the base, 

 followed by chocolate. 

 Near the outer edjre of 

 the wing is an indistinct 



bar as of powdered silver, and across the middle stretches a 



bold and well-defined bar of burnished silver. The lower wings 



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Fig. 446. — Erateina regina. Under surface. 



