212 BUTTERFLY. 



division, and is a beautiful species with orange- 

 yellow wings deeply bordered with black. 



Of the Danai Festivi the P. Midamus may 

 serve as an example; an elegant Asiatic species, 

 of a black colour, with a varying blue lustre to- 

 wards the tips of the upper wings, which are mark- 

 ed by many white spots, while the lower pair are 

 streaked longitudinally with numerous white lines, 

 and edged with a row of white specks. 



P. Sophorce is also of this tribe: it is of a fine 

 brown colour, with a bright orange-ferruginous 

 bar across the upper wings, and a more obscure 

 one of similar colour round the lower part of the 

 under wings: it is a native of South- America, and 

 according to Madam Merian, proceeds from a 

 large rufous caterpillar marked above by narrow 

 longitudinal white stripes. 



Among the Nymphales Gemmati few can ex- 

 ceed in elegance the P. lo or Peacock Butter- 

 fly, a species by no means uncommon in our 

 own country: the ground-colour of this insect is 

 orange-brown, with black bars separated by yellow 

 intermediate spaces on the upper edge of the su- 

 perior wings, while at the tip of each is a most 

 beautiful large eye- shaped spot, formed by a com- 

 bination of black, brown, and blue, with the addi- 

 tion of whitish specks: on each of the lower wings 

 is a still larger eye-shaped spot, consisting of a 

 black central patch, varied with blue, and sur- 

 rounded by a zone of pale brown, which is itself 

 deeply bordered with black: all the wings- are 

 scolloped or denticulated. The caterpillar 3 is 



