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THE THYRIA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Thyria. 



Vicris Thyria, MM. Latreille and Geoffroy, Ency. Meth. 

 Hist. Nat. ix. p. 147. Pontia Thyria, Horsfield, in 

 Zoo/. Journ. vol. v. p. 69, pi. 4, fig. 2. 



THE Thyria butterfly is two inches in breadth 

 and of an uniform rich orange coloured brown ; the 

 anterior margins towards the shoulders of the uppe 

 wings tinged with yellow, and the interior margin 

 of the lower wings of the same colour, with theii 

 posterior margins scalloped and edged with a bordei 

 of yellow, above which, is a scalloped border o 

 black ; the external sides of the upper wings hav< 

 a black border ; the body is yellowish brown. 



Dr Horsfield says, " The male, in our insect, is 

 distinguished by a more rich and saturated coloui 

 above, by very prominent blackish nervures, and 

 by a very faint posterior border. In the female, 

 both wings have a distinct broad blackish posterioi 

 border, and the anterior pair has, besides, a band 

 of the same colour, near the outer apical angle, 

 passing obliquely from the middle of the costa, to . 

 wards the margin, being succeeded by several in. 

 distinct arcs. The tint in the female is less brilliant; 



