EVENUS. 5 7 



angle are two rather large black spots, which are sometimes 

 also visible on the upper side. 



The fore-wings are very long and rather pointed, and the 

 hind-margin is very oblique. Towards the anal angle are two 

 tails, the innermost much longer than the other. The body is 

 blue above, and white beneath, and the antennae are black, 

 with pale rings. 



In the female the ground-colour is more greenish, and the 

 black border is continued round all the wings, though it is 

 narrower towards the apex of the fore-wings. 



GENUS EVENUS. 

 Eienus t Hubner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 78 (1816). 



I. EVENUS REGALIS. 

 (Plate XLIL Figs. 3, 4.) 



Papillo ngatis, Cramer, Pap. Exot. i. pi. 72, flgs. E, F (1775). 

 Papilio endymion^ Fabiicius, Spec. Ins. p. 115, no. 506 



(1781). 

 Polyommatus endymion, Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. p. 622, no. 17 



(1823). 

 Eudymion regalis, Swainson, Zool. Illustr. Ins. ii. pi. 85 



Thtcla rcgalis, Slaudinger, Exot. Schmett. i. p. 284, pi. 97 

 (1888). 



This beautiful Butterfly is found in various parts of South 

 America. The male measures rather less than two inches 

 across the wings,, and the female rather more. It belongs to 

 one of the most gorgeous groups of Tropical American Lyc<znid<T. 

 The wings are of a very brilliant blue, with a tinge of green. 

 and are bordered with black, rather narrowly in the male, but 

 very broadlv in the female, which we fcave figured, and which 



