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 LEPIDOPTERA. 



coloured curved mark near the tips, the posterior with a single black dot above, 

 and with three ocellated spots beneath. Expanse of the wings, 2 inches. 

 Syx. Papilio (Nymph.) Liberia, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 135. Enc. Meth. 9. 375. 



The same observation may be applied to this South American species as to the 

 last— Stoll, who investigated the transformations of many of the Lepidoptera of 

 Guiana, having described its preparatory states. The caterpillar is of a dark green 

 colour, with the head blue, and the legs and anal fork yellow. It is armed with 

 black branching spines, of which the two anterior ones are by far the longest. The 

 chrysalis is elongated, with the head bifid, and of a green colour. It appears to be a 

 very variable species, as the Papilio Agatha and Merione of Fabricius, P. Laothoe 

 of Herbst, and P. Ariadne of Cramer, are referred to it in the Encyclopedie 

 Methodique. 



NYMPHALIS ? PHEGEA. 



Plate XXXI. fig. 1. 



Species. Nymphalis ? Phegea : alis dentatis fuscis, nigro undatis, anticis fascia niaculari, 

 posticis disco ferrugineo aut albo ; subtus pallidioribus. Expans. alar, una 3 J. 

 Nymphalis ? with the wings dentated, brown, with numerous black waves ; the 

 anterior with a row of spots, and the disc of the posterior wings of a ferruginous 

 or white colour ; beneath the wings are paler, and the black waves more distinct. 

 Expanse of the wings, 3-| inches. 

 Syx. Papilio (N.) Phegea, Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. 1. p. 132. Enc. Meth. 9. 406, (Nympha- 

 lus? P.) 



NYMPHALIS FATIMA. 



Plate XXXI. fig. 2. 



Species. Nymphalis Fatima : alis atris, fascia communi flava, posticarum abbreviata ; 

 anticis punctis quatuor flavis subapicalibus ; posticis maculis rubris mediis, sub- 

 caudatis. Expans. alar, una 2. 1 ,. 

 Nymphalis : with the wings black, having a yellow bar running across them, which 

 is abbreviated in the posterior pair ; the anterior having also four subapical 

 yellow spots, and the posterior several red spots in the middle, the latter slightly 

 tailed. Expanse of the wings, 2J inches. 



