MORPHIDiE — MOEPHO. 



MORPHO CYPRIS. 2. 



Upperside. Male brilliant metallic blue. Both wings crossed by two con- 

 tinuous macular bands of light yellow or pink, changing as the light changes, with 

 two spots of the same colour between the bands near the costal margin. 



Underside brown. Three spots of white within tlie cell, the two bands as 

 above, but less distinct, and between them, on the anterior wing, three eyes placed in 

 a line ; on the posterior wing, six placed irregularly, one between the sub-costal 

 nervules (sometimes a second, but indistinct), two between the median nervides, 

 and three together near the anal angle. 



Female orange yellow, the outer margins broadly brown. Both wings with a 

 row of orange spots parallel to the outer margin, and a double row of lunides of the 

 same colour on the margin. Anterior wing with the cell brown, marked by a spot 

 of orange. Two spots also orange between the transverse bands near the costal 

 margin. 



Expan. 5^0 to oyq in. Hab. New Granada. 



Ill the Collections of W. W. Saunders and W. C. Hewitson. 



The female, which has been presented to me with great liberality by Mr. Mark, the British 

 I'onsid at Bogota, is, he tells me, the only one which has been seen there by the natives. Although 

 the male has been known for many years, no one has ever been rash enough to attempt to figure it. 

 Mr. Westwood, to whose lot it has fallen to describe it mider the MS. name given it by Dr. Boisduval. 

 lias well remarked that it is " omnium Papiliouarum nitidissimus." 



