110 nUTTBRFLY COLLECTOR'S 



Primary wings underneath, pale tawny or yellowish, with 

 eleven black spots scarcely occllated, three placed longitn- 

 dinaJly near the base, then seven or eight in an undulated 

 band, less distinct towards the posterior margin. Secondary 

 wings above, with six black spots resting upon the black 

 posterior margin ; underneath tawny, with fewer and larger 

 black spots crowned with white ; towards the posterior 

 margin some orange spots at the anal angle, where the 

 wings are somewhat emarginate, and there is a tendency to 

 a tail. The female differs altogether from the male ; the 

 wings above are more obscure. Primary wings with nume- 

 rous dots, and a nearly marginal band, consisting of confluent 

 brown spots. Secondary wings are brown rather than 

 tawny, with veins ; a largish square .spot with others .smaller 

 and more indistinct in the disk of a tawny colour ; besides a 

 knotty band consisting of six indentations at the posterior 

 margin also tawny. All the wings underneath are the same 

 a-s in the male. 



Caterpillar. Dull green, hairy, with a yellow dorsal and 

 yellowish green lateral stripes, black head .and legs. 



Chrysalis. Brownish ycUow, with dark coloured wing-cases. 



Observation. This is a very rare insect. 



LYCiENA CHRYSEIS, PURPLE-EDGED COPPER. 



Duncan, pi. 30, fig, 1. 



Butterfly. Wings snbangulated : above bright copper- 

 colour, with the dots of the disk and all the margins of a 

 bromiisli jmrple. Primary underneath, with a yellowish 

 disk, and a cinereous margin, with numerous ocellated dots, 

 the pupil of which is black, and the iris white ; three towards 

 the l)a.se placed longitudinally, six behind the middle in an 

 tiudnlatcd baud, and six at the po.sterior margin nearly 



