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MORPHO. I. 



MORPHO SULKOWSKYI. 1. 



J/. Sidkouski/i. KoUar, BcUrage zum Ins. N. Granada. .If. Ganymede. 

 West. Gen. Diur. Lep.,^). 33. 



Upperside. !Male pearly glittering blue, changing (as the light changes) to rich 

 cream-coloiu'. Spotless, except where the marks of the underside are seen through. 

 Anterior wing brown at the apex and outer margin. Posterior wing with a narrow 

 outer margin of black. A large brown spot at the anal angle marked with three 

 spots of scarlet. 



UxuERSiDE rich cream-colour. Both wings with two short bands across the 

 cell ; a third at the end of the cell, and a fourth just beyond it, and below them 

 between the nervures a band of spots (in the form of inverted cones on the posterior 

 wing) followed by a chain of eyes (four on the anterior, five on the posterior wing) 

 Avith a broad faint band on each side of them, and by two other bands near to the 

 outer margin. Posterior wing with the anal spot as above, but of a light purple 

 marked with spots of scarlet and traversed by a black line. 



The female differs from the male on the upperside, chiefly in having the bands 

 of the underside much more distinctly seen through, in having the outer margin of 

 the posterior wing broadly rufous. On the underside there is no difference, except 

 that all the bands and eyes are very much more distinct. 



Expan. 4 in. Hab. New Granada. 



In the Collections of AV. AV. Saunders and AY. C. Hewitsou. 



This beautiful species was first published to the world in oiu- Great Exhibition of 1851 ; the 

 plate in which it was represented having been sent there as au esamijlo of cronio-lithography. AA^e 

 are indebted to Jlr. Stevens, of Bogota, for the specimens of this and many more species which 

 adorn our cabinets, and I gi'ieve to say that his death has deprived us of a most zealous entomological 

 friend, and put au end to many bright hopes for the future. 



