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THE VIDURA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Vidura. 
PLATE Ill, 
Amblypodia yidura, ZZorsfield’s Des. Cat. Lepidoplerous 
Insects, p. 111, pl. 1, fig. 6, 6 a. 
“ TE wings in the male, bright azure blue above, 
with a snowy refulgence, spread as a delicate white 
powder over the surface, while the ground colour 
assumes, in a different aspect, a pale sea green 
cast ; the superior wings are ornamented with a 
delicate white, silky, brush-like’ appendage, re- 
flected and closely applied té a blackish spot on the 
middle of the dise ; the margins are black, gradu- 
ally increasing in breadth to the tip, being sepa- 
rated by a curved boundary from the azure ground ; 
in the lower wings the posterior border is marked 
with a black thread, extending to the anal appen- 
dage, which bears besides a black lunule; the 
extreme fringe.is gray ; the exterior margin is 
provided with a hemispherical denudated silvery 
Spot, corresponding with a delicate brush of length- 
ened hairs, in the under side of the upper wings ; 
the interior horder is covered with a delicate whitish 
down, slightly fringed with gray ; underneath, the 
wings are grayish brown, with a very faint livid 
VOL, III. D. 
