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THE PEACOCK BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio To.—Brirain, 
PLATE Il. 
Papilio Io, Merian’s Ins. Eur. i. 226. Alb. Ins. pl. 3. 
Wilk, Pap, 55. pl. 3. a. 2. Harris’ Aurelian, pl. 8. 
S, k, ii— Vanessa Io, Latreille. 
Specific character.—The head, throat, and abdo- 
men of this splendid butterfly are of a deep reddish 
brown, and covered with pretty long hairs. The 
wings are angular, considerably indented at their 
posterior margins, and surrounded by a broad black 
band, the superior ones being of a high toned brown, 
approaching to red, with large compound eyelets, 
reddish in the centre, and the inner half of the outer 
circle of a rich golden yellow, the outer half being of 
a fine sky blue, with several dark spots init. These 
eyelets are bounded on their inner sides by a trian- 
gular semilunar black patch, beyond which is a 
wedge-shaped patch of rich yellow, hounded with 
an abbreviated black band ; on the exterior margin 
is a transverse band of golden yellow, thickly punc- 
tured with black ; in the centre of the wing are two 
pretty large sky-blue spots. The lower wings are of 
a pale reddish brown, with the margins considerably 
indented, and a deep, black, broad border, with sub- 
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