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THE AMPHINOME BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio A.mphinome. SURINAM. 



Papilio Amphinome, Marian's Ins. of Surinam, pi. 7. 

 Cramer, Desc. de JPapillons, pi. 54, fig. E. F. 



THE wings of this insect are indented, black, and 

 clouded with bluish green above ; the upper pair 

 marked, both on the upper and under sides, with a 

 large, broad, white band, which extends across the 

 wings towards their tips, from the anterior to the 

 posterior margin, in an oblique direction ; the inner 

 margins are of a raw umber colour. Under side of the 

 upper wings, black, clouded with the same green as 

 the upper surface ; the lower wings are black, variously 

 clouded, and marked with scarlet : all the posterior 

 margins have a border of semilunar green spots. 



The caterpillar is three inches long, of a dusky 

 colour, with three longitudinal green spots, extending 

 from the one extremity to the other ; the head is 

 furnished on its coronal surface with eight long horn 

 like spines, and the tail with two. It feeds on the 

 Plumeria rubra, changes into a chrysalis in June, and 

 emerges the complete butterfly in the month of July. 



Inhabits South America, and Surinam. 



