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THE ARJUNA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Arjuna. 



Papilio Arjuna, HorsfielcTs Descriptive Catalogue of Lep. 

 Insects, Mis. East India Company, pi. 1. fig. 14. 14. J 



THE upper and under wings of tihQ Papilio Arjuim 

 are of a deep fulvous brown, thickly besprinkled 

 with minute greenish dots ; the lower wings with 

 a broad transverse green patch, occupying about t 

 third of the wings. This patch is liable to a 

 changebility of colour from the play of light ; ati 

 the interior lower angle of this green patch is a& 

 eyelike spot of black, its upper edge being sur- 

 mounted by a semilunar yellow stripe, above which 

 is a similarly shaped stripe of blue ; the upper wings 

 are slightly, and the lower ones deeply, indented, 

 and provided with subcaudal appendages, directed 

 outwards. The under surface of both wings are of' 

 a raw umber colour ; the upper ones with a broad 

 transverse oblique band of pale straw yellow, ex- 

 tending entire.ly across them ; the lower wings with 

 a black border, having in each of the hollows a 

 crescent-shaped white spot, surmounted by anJ 

 acutely semilunar spot of yellow, ferruginous ia 



