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THE AMPHINOME BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Amphinome.—Suninam. 
PLATE IX, 
Papilio Amphinome, Merian’s Ins. of Surinam, pl. 7. 
—Cramer, Desc, de Papillons, pl. 54, fig. B. F. 
Tue wings of this insect are indented, black, and 
clouded with bluish green above ; the superior ones 
marked, both on the upper and under sides, with a 
large, broad, white band, which extends across the 
wings towards their tips, from the anterior to the 
posterior margin, in an oblique direction ; the inner 
margins are ofa raw umber colour. Under side of the 
upper wings black, clouded with the same green as 
the upper surface ; the lower wings are black, various- 
ly clouded, and marked with scarlet: all the poste- 
rior margins have a border of semilunar green spots. 
The caterpillar is three inches long, of a dusky 
colour, with three longitudinal green spots, extend- 
ing from the one extremity to the other; the head is 
furnished on its coronal surface with eight long horn- 
like spines, and the tail with two. It feeds on the 
Plumeria rubra, changes into a chrysalis in June, 
and emerges the complete butterfly in the month 
of July. 
Inhabits South America, and Surinam. 
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