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EURYGONA. III. 



EURYGONA OPALESCENS. 23, 24. 



Upperside. Male : rufous. Anterior wins; ^-i-itli the costal aiul outer marcins 

 and apex broadly bordered with brown. Posterior wing with the apex brown. Botli 

 wings glossed with golden green. 



Underside white, clouded with darker colour. Anterior Aving crossed at the 

 middle by a broken rufous-line ; a black sj)ot near the anal angle. Posterior wing 

 crossed before the middle by a broken line of three rufous and two black s])ots. Both 

 ttings with an indistinct cloud across beyond the middle, and a submarginal line of 

 lunular black spots, one near the middle of the posterior wing larger than the rest. 



Expan. 1^3%. Hab. Brazil. 



Ill the Collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



EURYGONA OPALIi\A. -25, 26. 

 B. OpaVina. We^fw. Gen. Blur. Lop. Page 43S. 



Upperside. Male : orange, with the costal margin beyond the middle black ; 

 glossed with the prismatic coloiu's. 



Underside white, clouded on the outer margins. Anterior wing crossed at the 

 middle by a broken line of rufous spots. Posterior wing with a spot near the costal 

 margin before the middle, three spots in the centre and three towards the anal angle, 

 iiifous. Both mugs crossed beyond the middle by an indistinct cloud of neutral 

 colour, and a submarginal line of minute black lunular spots, one in the middle of 

 the posterior wing larger than the rest. 



Expan. 1 27j in. liab. Amazon. 



lu the C'(_>llectiou of Mr. Bates. 



I have uot attempted to figure this species in its greatest beauty. When its head is to the light, 

 and you see it as you do a rainbow with the sun behind you, it is lit up with a blaze of metallic hght, 

 glittering like a Morpho, and of all the colours of the prism. 



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