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THE SPRINKLING MOTH. 

 Phalcena Liboria. 



PLATE XXXIX. 



Papilio Liboria, Cramer' } s Desc. des Insects, iv. p. 106, 

 pi. 345, fig. D. 



THE upper wings are of an intense crimson or 

 marone colour, with a very broad border of black, 

 internally undulated ; and the exterior margins are 

 also black ; the lower wings are of a reddish fawn 

 colour on then* upper half, and black on the lower 

 half, with two lines of black on the fawn colour ; 

 the head and shoulders are of the same fawn colour 

 as the lower wings ; the rest of the body is intense 

 black; the eyes are scarlet, the antennae filiform, 

 and the tail fringed, and somewhat fan-shaped. 



This moth inhabits the coasts of Africa, particu- 

 larly Sierra Leone. 



