LEPIDOPTERA. 



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equally well preserved, the ground colour is uniform, and the white transverse strigae preserve 

 the character above described. In the anal region there are three ocellated spots ; the largest, 

 situated on the posterior margin just without the caudal appendage, is ovate, bounded in- 

 ternally by a narrow orange crescent, and externally by a streak covered with greenish silvery 

 irrorations; at its internal edge is a reniform spot, intensely black towards the anal angle, sur- 

 mounted by a'silvery lunule and a small orange crescent, aud touching at the extreme anal angle 

 a minute, dark coloured, blind ocellus: the tails are lenthened, slender, brown above, and 

 white underneath and at the extremity. The antennae are black and regularly fasciated "frith 

 white externally ; the body pale blue above, white underneath. The larva and pupa are 

 figured on our fourth plate : the former feeds on the Butea frondosa, and was observed in the 

 month of February : numerous specimens of the perfect insect in high perfection, bred from the 

 larva, are contained in our collection. This species, according to the authors of the article 

 Papillon in the Encyclopedic, is also found in Timor. Stoll mentions, perhaps erroneously, 

 Surinam as the native place. 



10. Lycjena Celerio. Alee supra maris azurem nitore argenteo, fceminae dilutiores nitore 

 canescente, limbo latissimo nigro posticorum strigis tribus undulatis albis : subfus canescenti- 

 Juscce alba strigosce, strigis tribus marginalibus continuis ; anticcB insuper strigis guatuor 

 mediis imparibtts, duabus interioribus costam mm attingentibus singulis puncfo interjecto, secundd 

 brevissimd guartd dimidiatd ; posticce strigis sex, duabus basilaribus completis, duabus mediis 

 ' ad angulum analem inflexis, duabus submarginalibuspostici abbreviatis ; ocellis analibus tribus 

 posteriore insigniore in tcBnid aurantio-fuscd latissimd nidvlante, (Expans, alar. 1 unc. 3 — 

 5 lin.) 



Papilio P. R. Celerio. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 66. No. 625 ? 



Papilio Celeno. Cram. pi. 31. fig. c. d. (the male.) 



Polyommatus Celerio. Enc. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 654. 



Wings above in the male, azure with a whitish silvery reflexion ; anterior wings with a narrow 

 blackish border along the posterior margin, gradually spreading and more intensely coloured at 

 the outer apical angle: the posterior wings have a delicate black marginal striga, narrowly 

 bordered with white along its internal edge, and, at the anal angle, interior to this, between the 

 caudal appendage and internal margin, a short undulated fascia of black : in the female 'the 

 azure tint is paler, shaded into brownish, and the wings have a broad brown posterior border, 

 which in the hinder pair is crossed by three white strigae parallel with the margin, the outer 

 being regular and continued, the next formed of crescents directed outward, the third undu- 

 lated : the surface of the wings underneath is grayish brown with a I'ich silvery gloss, bearing 

 sew« strigae in the anterior and nine in the posterior pair, of which three are marginal and 

 continued through both ; the anterior wings have besides, between the basal portion which is 

 plain, and the margin, four strigae of unequal length; the first and second arise at a small dis- 

 tance from the costa, and two minute white dots, respectively opposed to each, stand in the 

 intermediate space ; the first striga passes across the surface to the interior margin, the second is 

 short and terminates exactly on the disk; the third is united to the costa by a dot obliquel}' 

 applied and extends entirely over the wing; the fourth arises from the costa, and is regularly 

 continued half across the surface: in the posterior wiw^s the strigae are regularly disposed in 



L 2 pairs, 



