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THE ARJUNA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Arjuna. 
PLATE XY. 
Papilio Arjuna, Horsfield’s Descriptive Catalogue of Lep. 
Insects, Mis. East India Company, pl. 1. fig. 14. 14. 
Tue upper and under wings of the Papilio Arjuna 
are of a deep fulyous brown, thickly besprinkled 
with minute greenish dots 5 the lower wings with 
a broad transverse green patch, occupying about a 
third of the wings. This patch is liable to a 
changebility of colour from the play of light ; at 
the interior lower angle of this green patch is an 
eyelike spot of black, its upper edge being sur- 
mounted by a semilunar yellow stripe, above which 
is a similarly shaped stripe of blue ; the upper wings 
are slightly, and the lower ones deeply, indented, 
and provided with subcaudal appendages, directed 
outwards. The under surface of both wings are of 
a raw umber colour; the upper ones with a broad 
transverse oblique band of pale straw yellow, ex- 
tending entirely across them ; the lower wings with 
a black border, haying in each of the hollows a 
crescent-shaped white spot, surmounted by an 
acutely semilunar spot of yellow, ferruginous in 
