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THE ANDROMACHA BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Andromacha. 

 PLATE XLIV. 



Papilio Andromacha, Linn. Maniola Andromacha, Schrank. 

 Satyrus Andromacha, Latreille. Hipparehia Andro- 

 macha, Fabricius, Say. Oreas Marmorea Andromacha, 

 Hubner. 



THE wings are brown> with sub-marginal blackish 

 spots ; beneath, paler sub-perlaceous, with a series 

 of ocellet spots ; the body above and the superior 

 surface of the wings ate brown ; the anterior wings 

 beyond the middle, with a broad paler band, bifid 

 below, and including a series of four fuscous oval 

 spots, or epupillate ocellae* of which the second, and 

 sometimes the third, are small, and the posterior 

 one largest ; between the band and the exterior 

 edge is a single narrow pale line, sometimes obso- 

 lete ; exterior edge, alternately white and black ; 

 the posterior wings with a narrow, fuscous angu- 

 lated line across the middle, in which is a series 

 of fine fuscous epupillate ocellae, with a yellow iris, 

 the third smallest, then the fifth, and the first largest ; 

 exterior margin, slightly tinged with rufous, and with 

 one or two fuscous lines ; beneath it is perlaceous, 

 with a brown narrow band before the middle, and 

 another rather beyond the middle ; beyond which is 

 a broad lighter perlaceous band, in which, on the 



