28 Mr. Butler's DescrijJtions 0/ 



SUB-FAMILY MORPHINE. Butler. 



GENUS MORPHO. 



Morplio JiUurna, sj}. nov. 



Ake supra ciuereo-argeuteae ; anticte costa, plaga cunei- 

 formi disco-cellulari, (in costam a macula alba interrupta,) 

 apice et margine externo, nigro-fuscis ; niaculis sex sub- 

 marginalibus rotundatis, tribus superioribus flavis, infe- 

 rioribus albis ; maculis sex minoribus subgeminatis ante- 

 marginalibus fulvis : posticffi margine latins nigrescente ; 

 maculis tribus disci superioiis submarginalibus albis ; linea 

 marginali nigra introrsum inter venas ferrugineo, extrorsum 

 a ciliis fuscis limitata ; margine abdominali oclireo-tincta. 



Alaj subtus rufo-fuscte ; anticce fasciolis tribus obliquis 

 discoideis, (media latiore) fusco albidis ; striola pone cellam 

 undulata rufo-fusca per nebulam albidam errante ; area 

 interno-basali nigro-variegata ; plagis tribus lunularibus 

 (infra cellam aream basalem terminantibus) fusco albidis, 

 introrsum nigro-limitatis ; ocellis tribus discalibus con- 

 suetis ; fascia submarginali nigra, introrsum a plagis sub- 

 septem ochraceis semicircularibus limitata ; fascia mar- 

 ginali ferruginea a linea media nigra interrupta : posticre 

 area basali fusco-albido quadrate fasciolata ; ocellis tribus 

 subanalibus duobusque oblique infra costam positis, omnibus 

 fuscis cffiruleo punctatis fulvo-cinctis nigro-circumcinctis et 

 fusco-zonatis ; stria submarginali fusca, introrsum albo 

 extrorsum ferrugineo limitata ; margine nigro a linea media 

 albida interrupto : exp. alar. unc. 6, lin. 4. 



Wings above silver grey : frontiuings with the costa, a 

 wedge-shaped, disco-cellular patch (interrupted upon the 

 costa by a white spot) the apex and outer margin black- 

 brown ; six submarginal round spots, the upper three yellow, 

 the lower white ; six smaller suligeminate nearly marginal 

 fulvous spots : hindwings with the margin more broadly 

 blackish ; three submarginal white spots on tlie upper part 

 of the disc ; a marginal black line bounded internally 

 between the nervures with ferruginous, externally by the 

 lirown fringe ; the abdominal margin ochre tinted. 



Wings heloio red-brown ; frontwings with three oblique 

 whitish-brown discoidal bands (the centre one broader) ; 

 a waved red-brown streak beyond the cell wandering 



