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Another beautiful group is represented by M. laertes 

 (Drury) and its allies. These are of a very delicate pale blue 

 or green, sometimes almost white, and have a continuous row 

 of small eyes on the under side of the hind-wings. 



Some of the species of Morpho have two dissimilar forms of 

 female; thus Morpho cypris, referred to above, has a blue 

 female like the male, but with a broader white band, and also 

 a brown and tawny female, quite unlike its partner. 



ORIENTAL GENERA ALLIED TO MORPHO. 



The largest species belong to the genus Stichophthalma, Fel- 

 der, and measure four or five inches across the wings, which 

 are very broad, with the hind-margins rounded and dentated ; 

 they have a row of moderate-sized ocelli, bordered within by a 

 pale band, on the under side of the wings. One of them, vS. 

 howqua (Westwood), a Chinese species, is yellowish-tawny 

 above, with a double row of black sagittate sub-marginal black 

 spots ; and S. camadeva (Westwood), which is common in the 

 Himalayas, has bluish-white fore-wings, with marginal black 

 markings, nearly as in S. howqua ; the base is rusty-red, and 

 that of the hind-wings more broadly so, shading outside into 

 blackish, crossed by two sub-marginal rows of nearly connected 

 triangular and lunular bluish-white spots. 



In Thaumantias, Hiibner, the fore-wings are more pointed 

 above, and the hind-margin is nearly straight ; they are brown, 

 generally either more or less blue at the base, or with a broad 

 blue or yellowish-white band on the fore-wings, and sometimes 

 with a large mass of orange on the lower part of the hind-wings 

 towards the anal angle, and the tip of the hind-wings more 

 narrowly bordered with orange. 



Among the smaller species of Morphincz are those belonging 

 to the genus Clerome, Westwood, some of which do not much 

 exceed two inches in expanse. They are usually of a tawny 



