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THE CRAMERIAN BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Cramerianus. J A VA . 



PLATE VII. 



Papilio Iphigenia, Cramer, Desc. de Papillons, pi. 67, fig. D.E. 

 Papilio Cramerianus, Shaw's Nat. Miscellany, pi. 852. 



THE wings are scalloped and black. Upper wings, 

 with three sesquilaterous blue bands, and variously 

 spotted with the same colour. They have also six 

 oblong spots of white, partly edged with pale blue, 

 and a quadruple macular band of bluish white on the 

 posterior margin, and a large triangular scarlet spot 

 on each. The under wings have a very large white, 

 transverse, and lunated band, edged with shining 

 blue. Next the lower posterior margin, there is a row 

 of white semilunar spots, above which is an undulated 

 belt of blue ; and still higher up, a macular band 

 of the same colour. Under surface of the wings, 

 variously clouded, streaked, and spotted with black. 

 The colour, orange and gray. The body is brown, 

 and black in the middle. The eyes are red ; and the 

 antennae slender, with large club shaped points. 



This elegant butterfly is a native of the island of 

 Java, and measures four inches, with extended wings. 



