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* HE SINGLE SPOT BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Spondia. 
PLATE XVI. 
Papilio Spondie, Merian’s Insects of Surinam, pl. 13.— 
Shaw’s Nat. Mis. pl. 806. 
Tur whole upper surface of this butterfly is ofan 
uniform bright verditer blue, with a black spot on 
each of the upper wings towards their tips, and a 
yellow transparent spot near the centre, towards 
the posterior margins of the lower wings; the under 
surface of both wings is of a deep umber brown, 
each provided with a waved grayish white sesqui- 
alterous band, and the lower wings with a yellow 
spot in the same situation as above ; the body is 
brown beneath, and azure blue above. 
The caterpillar of this insect, according to 
Madam Merian, is of a very yoracious nature, and 
feeds on the leaves of the Spondias lutea, or Ameri- 
can plumb ; it is of a deep green colour, and thickly 
beset with long hairs, each having a little circular 
ball at its tip. It changes to a chrysalis in the 
beginning of April, and transforms into the perfect 
butterfly in the end of the same month. 
The Single Spot butterfly is a native of Surinam. 
