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THE APATURINA BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Apaturina. 



PLATE XLII. 



Aconthea Apaturina, HorsfielcCs Descriptive Catalogue of 

 Lepidopterous Insects, in the Museum of the East India 

 Company, part ii. Zoological Journal, vol. v. p. 68, 

 pi. iii. fig. 1 ; 1, A. 



THE upper wings are velvet black, with a double 

 row of white dots along their disk, with two sub- 

 lunar white patches next the oval margin, which is 

 sub-crenated ; within these are three white spots, 

 with a sub-lunar patch below ; all these patches are 

 half covered with pale royal blue ; and a solitary 

 blue spot near the anterior margin, and approach- 

 ing the sesquitertious margin. The lower wings 

 are black, and sub-crenated, with a very broad 

 band extending nearly half the length of the wing. 

 About an eighth of an inch from the oval margin, is 

 an articulate white band, with a macular band of 

 black ; close to its side, the sesquitertious margins 

 are hirsute, of a pale umber colour ; body, black ; 

 antennae, long. When the wings are expanded, it is 

 about two and a half inches broad. 



The native place of this butterfly, as far as Dr 

 Horsfield has ascertained, is the island of Java. 



