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PERIDROMIA' AMPHINOME. 



PLATE XVIII. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Amphinome, Linn. Cramer, PI. 54, fig. E, F. — RoesePs 



Ins. i, PL 10, fig. 1,2 ; Merian, Ins. Surin. PL 8 Le Papier 



Marbrd de la Chine, Daubenton, PI. enl. 92, fig. 7, 8. 



Bears considerable resemblance to the preceding on 

 the upper side, the ground colour being glossy black, 

 the whole surface variegated with waved streaks and 

 spots of greenish-blue ; these markings frequently 

 assume the appearance of hieroglyphics, and towards 

 the hinder margin of the inferior wings they indis- 

 tinctly represent a series of oval ocelli. Both sexes 

 have a broad oblique white band across the upper 

 wings, but it is sinuated on the edges, while in the 

 female of P. Aretkusa the edges are always entire. 

 On the under side the general colour is brown ; the 

 upper wings with a triangular red patch at the base, 

 the colour between this and the central white band 

 is black glossed with green ; beyond the white band 

 are two rows of white points, one of them lying 

 along the margin. The under wings have the ante- 

 rior half red, that colour divided by rays of greenish- 

 black, which occupies the whole of the hinder 

 portion, except where it is interrupted by a few 



