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THE BUTTERFLY MOTH. 

 Phalaina Papilionaris. 



PLATE XLII. 



Phalacua Papilionaris, Cramer's Desc. des Pap. i. p. 45, pi. '29j 

 fig. A. Drury^s Insects, Ii. pi. 2, fig. 4. 



BOTH the upper and lower wings of this moth 

 are black, studded- with interrupted bands of straw 

 yellow, and having a row of spots of the sanw 

 colour near the posterior margins of all the wings ; ; 

 the upper pair have a band or belt of azure blue oft 

 their anterior margin, extending from the body to 

 nearly the tip of the wings j the body is black ; th# 

 thorax having a white transverse band across thd 

 shoulders, and a blue circular spot beneath, below 

 which is a triangular azure spot ; each segment of 

 the abdomen has a blue transverse band. 



The antennae are setaceous, and the eyes red. 

 This moth greatly resembles a butterfly ; hencl 

 its name. 



