THE AMALTHEA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Amalihea. 
PLATE LI. 
Papilio Amalthea, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. p. 779, No. 174.— 
Cramer, Desc. de Papillons, iii. p. 29, pl. 209, fig. a. B. 
THE upper wings are entire, and the under ones 
indented at their posterior edges, with sub-caudate 
wings, curiously directed obliquely outwards at their 
points. The insect is black ; within the whole pos- 
terior margin there is a double row of white spots, 
with eight other irregularly placed white spots on 
both wings ; a sesquialterous divided band of deep 
crimson passes over the middle of both upper and 
under wings, with several spots of the same colour 
on the upper wings. The body is dark reddish 
brown, the whole of which is surrounded by a broad 
band of the same colour, extending from the anterior 
margin of the upper wings, to the lower inner angle 
of the under ones ; a transverse narrow band of the 
same colour runs from the body halfway along the 
exterior margin ; the eyes are scarlet ; and the an- 
tennee short. 
The general aspect of this Papilio is rather un- 
common. It inhabits Surinam, and was first figured 
by Madam Merian. 
