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THE RADIATED BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Ulysses. 

 PLATE XLVI. 



Papilio Ulysses, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 748 Fdbr. Spec. 



Ins. ii. p. 13. Cramer, Descr. de Papillons, ii. pi. 121. 

 Shaw's Nat. Misc. pi. 92. 



BOTH the upper and under wings of this insect are 

 black ; from the body, extending over three-fourths 

 of the wings, it is of a fine verdigris blue, radiating 

 towards the posterior margins ; the upper wings are 

 entire, and the under wings deeply indented, with a 

 margin of white semilunar spots, and a large caudate 

 wing at the lower extremity of each wing. The body 

 is black, changing into green with iridescent radiance ; 

 the lower surface of the wings has seven ocellated 

 spots. The antennae are short in proportion to the 

 size of the insect, which measures five inches and a 

 half in breadth. 



This insect is of uncommon beauty. The wings 

 are of the deepest velvet black ; while the area, or 

 middle part of each, is occupied by a very large 

 proportion of the most brilliant and iridescent blue, 

 and which terminates in a radiated manner round the 

 edges. This insect also affords an excellent example 

 of the caudated Papilios, in which the lower wings 

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