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THE BUTTERFLY MOTH. 
Phalena Papilionaris. 
PLATE XLIt, 
Phalwna Papilionaris, Cramer’s Desc. des Pap. i. p. 45, pl. 29, 
fig. .—Drury’s Insects, ii. pl. 2, fig. 4. 
Born the upper and lower wings of this moth 
are black, studded with interrupted bands of straw 
yellow, and having a row of spots of the same 
colour near the posterior margins of all the wings ; 
the upper pair have a band or belt of azure blue on 
their anterior margin, extending from the body to 
nearly the tip of the wings ; the body is black; the 
thorax having a white transverse band across the 
shoulders, and a blue cireular spot beneath, below 
which is a triangular azure spot ; each segment of 
the abdomen has a blue transverse band. 
The antennee are setaceous, and the eyes red. 
This moth greatly resembles a butterfly ; hence 
its name. 
