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URANIA SLOANUS. 

 PLATE XXIX. Fig. I. 



Gi)dart. — Pap. Sloanus, Cramer, PI. 85, fig. E, F Pap. Lei- 



lius. Var. Fabr. — Leilius Occidentalis, Stvainson, Illus. 

 PI. 129. 



Expands about two inches and a half or three inches ; 

 surface deep black ; the upper wings each with six 

 or seven transverse lines of golden green, and near 

 the middle a band of that colour bifid (sometimes 

 trifid) anteriorly. Under wings with a central band 

 of bright coppery red, irregularly indented, the 

 abdominal margin more or less gilded green ; the 

 tail black with a few emerald green spots. Design 

 on the under side corresponding to that on the sur- 

 face, the green paler. Body black above, with a 

 dorsal line of golden green, and another on each 

 side ; brownish beneath. 



This handsome species bears the name of the 

 celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, the early historian of 

 Jamaica, who figured it in his work (PI. 239, fig. 

 11, 12). It is accounted a rare insect, and, we be- 

 lieve, has hitherto been found only in the West 

 Indian Islands. 



