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THE LICARSIS BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Licarsis. 



PLATE XLIX. 

 Papilio Licarsis, Cramer, Descr. de Papillons, pi. 63, fig. c, 



THIS remarkable butterfly is black ; the upper 

 wings have two sesquilaterous light blue bands, 

 which are continued through the under wings, which 

 are much elongated, with very long caudate wings ; 

 about the centre of the anterior margins of which, 

 they are deeply indented ; there are two transverse 

 light blue spots a little way above the caudate 

 wings ; and near the middle, at the inner margin, 

 are similar spots of scarlet, and also one on each 

 side of the anterior margins of the upper wings, 

 close to the body ; antennae, short and erect ; along 

 the posterior margins of the caudate wings, are 

 narrow bands of white ; body, very short. 



This very uncommon butterfly is a native of 

 Surinam, and is, perhaps, one of the most curiously 

 formed of the papilionaceous tribe. 



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