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CETHOSIA DIDO. 

 PLATE XIII. 



Ceth. Dido. Fabr. — Pap. Dido, Linn. — Marian's Surin. Insects, 

 PL 2, (with Caterpillar) Cramer, PL 196, fig. E, F. 



This species expands about four inches ; the ground 

 colour of the surface is black, variously interrupted 

 with stripes and patches of green. On the upper 

 wings a longitudinal stripe of that colour extends 

 from the base to the extremity of the discoidal cell ; 

 beyond which there is a transverse series of large 

 contiguous spots, and two or three small insulated 

 ones. The inferior wings have two transverse green 

 bands, one of them broad and continuous placed near 

 the base, and terminating nearly in a point towards 

 the outer margin; the other consisting of six or 

 seven orbicular spots, and placed nearly midway 

 between the former band and the hinder extremity. 

 The under side differs considerably from the upper, 

 the ground colour being blackish-brown, while all 

 the green parts are bordered with pearl-white, and 

 along the posterior margin there is a series of white 

 lunules, each of them divided by a brown nervure ; 

 near the origin of the secondary wings a small lon- 

 gitudinal red line is likewise observable. The body 



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