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THE SINGLE SPOT BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Spondiae. 



PLATE XVI. 



Papilio Spondiae, Meriari's Insects of Surinam, pi. 13. 

 Shaw's Nat. Mis. pi. 806. 



THE whole upper surface of this butterfly is of an 

 uniform bright verditer blue, with a black spot on) 

 each of the upper wings towards their tips, and a 

 yellow transparent spot near the centre, towards 

 the posterior margins of the lower wings; the under J 

 surface of both wings is of a deep umber brown* 

 each provided with a waved grayish white sesquiJ 

 alterous band, and the lower wings with a yellow 

 spot in the same situation as above ; the body is> 

 brown beneath, and azure blue above. 



The caterpillar of this insect, according to 

 Madam Merian, is of a very voracious nature, andtt 

 feeds on the leaves of the Spondias lutea, or AmerWi 

 can plumb ; it is of a deep green colour, and thickly 

 beset with long hairs, each having a little circular; 

 ball at its tip. It changes to a chrysalis in the 1 

 beginning of April, and transforms into the perfect 

 butterfly in the end of the same month. 



The Single Spot butterfly is a native of Surinam 



