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THE VIDURA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Vidura, 



PLATE III. 



Ambly podia viclura, Horsfield''s Des. Cat. Lepidopterom, 

 Insects, p. Ill, pi. 1, %. G, 6 a. 



" THE wings in the male, bright azure blue above, 

 with a snowy refulgence, spread as a delicate white 

 powder over the surface, while the ground colour 

 assumes, in a different aspect, a pale sea green 

 cast; the superior wings are ornamented with a 

 delicate white, silky, brush-like appendage, re- 

 flected and closely applied to a blackish spot on the 

 middle of the disc ; the margins are black, gradu- 

 ally increasing in breadth to the tip, being sepa- 

 rated by a curved boundary from the azure ground : 

 in the lower wings the posterior border is marked 

 with a black thread, extending to the anal appen- 

 dage, which bears besides a black lunule ; the 

 extreme fringe is gray ; the exterior margin is 

 provided with a hemispherical denudated silvery 

 spot, corresponding with a delicate brush of length- 

 ened hairs, in the under side of the upper wings ; 

 the interior border is covered with a delicate whitish 

 down, slightly fringed with gray ; underneath, the 

 wings are grayish brown, with a very faint livid 



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