THE PAPILIONIN^E. 



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The collar is broadly 



The hind wings have a broad continuous band of green across the centre, 

 red. 



There is a very large and difficult group of South American Papilios, resembling Ornitkopterce 

 in form, but less than half the size, only averaging about three inches across the wings, which are 

 black, often with a large white or green spot on the fore wings, and with a crimson band on the hind 

 wings, which is not unfrequently glossed over with the most beautiful pale iridescent bluish or 

 greenish violet. Another South American group resembling these has a short pointed tail on. the 



LEPTOCIRCUS CURIUS. 



ORNITHGPTERA AMPHRISUS. 



hind wings ; and a third group from the same country includes brown species of larger size, 

 with one or two rows of ochreous yellow spots running round ail the wings. The hind wings 

 are dentated but not tailed. 



Among the East Indian species there are some brown Butterflies, glossed with blue and spotted 

 with white in the same manner as in the genus Euplcca, which they resemble in shape and 

 size as well as colour. A second East Indian group is black, with a large white spot, divided by the 

 veins on the hind wings, which are tailed ; and a third section, closely resembling this, contains black 

 species, dusted all over with golden-green. Both these groups contain species of considerable size, 

 often measuring four inches or more across the wings. These lead us on to the splendid Papilio 

 uli/sses and its allies, which are met with, like the Ornithopterce, in the Eastern Islands. These are 

 large blue Butterflies, with black borders, and tails on the hind wings. Mr. Wallace describes one 

 species as darting down in openings of the forest from the tops of the trees for a moment,, and 



