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THE PARALECTA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Paralecta. 
PLATE I. 
Paphia Paralecta, Horsjield’s Descriptive Catalogue of Lepi- 
dopterous Insects in the Museum of the East India 
Company, pl. 6. fig. 4. 
Tue extent of the wings of this heautiful insect, 
from the tip of the one to that of the other, is three 
inches and a half; and its total length two inches 
and three quarters. Its general colour on the up- 
per surface is of a deep azure blue, which changes 
to purple by the play of light. The upper wings 
have a broad bright fulvous sesquialterous band, 
with wundulated margins; the space between 
which and the extreme tips of the wings is of a 
deep brownish black ; the anterior margin, betwixt 
the sesquialterous band and the body of the insect, 
is slightly tinged with green; the head and hack 
deep blue; eyes and sides of the thorax, as well as 
the abdomen and interior margins of the lower 
wings, is of a burnt umber brown; the upper pair 
of wings are each provided with two white spots, 
the one situated in the lower margin of the sesqui- 
alterous band, and the other towards the tips of 
the wings; the lower wings have two fulvous 
