NYMPHALIDvE. 



PANDORA AND PREPONA. 



PANDORA PROCILLA. 1, 2, 4. 



Upperside. Male dark blue glossed with green. Anterior wing crossed 

 before the middle by four bands of black, the cell by six. Crossed transversely at the 

 middle by a band of glossy green; the rest to the apex blue-black, crossed by an 

 oblique band of three white spots. Posterior wing with the nervures ; a faint line 

 across the middle of the cell; the end of the cell; a curved line from the middle of 

 the costal margin to the anal angle ; a broad band, which encloses five round spots 

 of the colour of the rest of the wing (two or three of which have centres of black); a 

 waved band near and parallel to the outer margin and the margin itself; all black. 



Underside. Anterior wing, with the base grey; the cell crossed by black lines 

 as above, enclosing two spots of brick-red ; the rest of the wing to near the apex 

 (where it is crossed obliquely by a band of white) black; the apex red-brown. Pos- 

 terior wing red-brown, tinted with purple; a small spot at the base; two minute 

 spots in the cell ; a line from near the costal margin to the median nervure crossing 

 the cell ; the end of the cell ; a curved line (as above) from the middle of the costal 

 margin to the anal angle; the iris of six eyes, and an indistinct submarginal line; 

 all black. The eyes are of the colour of the wing, and four of them have pupils 

 of blue. 



Female. Differs from the male on the upperside in having the central band of 

 the anterior wing much broader, and in wanting the spots across the apex (which are 

 scarcely visible), as well as the red spots across the cell. On the posterior wing, 

 in having the eye-like spots nearest the costal margin converted into a band, and the 

 space between them and the outer margin all black. On the underside the band 

 across the apex of the anterior wing is wider and tinted with green, and the posterior 

 wing is of a brilliant scarlet, clouded near the apex. 



Expau. i 3-j^y $ 3^ - in. Hal). New Granada. 



In the Collection of the Entomological Society. 



This very beautiful butterfly is nearly allied to Pandora Prola of Boisduval, which is figured in 

 the Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera at plate 43. The males differ most, The posterior wing of 

 P. Prola on the underside is of a spotless bright scarlet. The females are much more alike. The 

 female of P. Pandora has the central band above wider and more sinuated on its inner margin ; it has. 

 too, the macular band across the apex, as in the male of P. Procilla. In Pandora the eye-like spots of 

 the posterior wing are entirely wanting, and are replaced by a Viand much more oblique than in 

 Procilla. On the underside of Pandora the posterior wing is darker ; the lines which cross it are 

 further apart, and the eyes are replaced by small indistinct spots. 



It is singular, that in these two species the male of one (Procilla) should resemble the female 

 of the other more than the male in many points; in having the white spots across the apex on the 

 upperside; the red spots across the cell, and the brighter colour of the posterior wing on the underside. 



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