ULYSSES, 



OR 



* im RADIATED BUTTERFLY. 



Generic Character. 



Antennae or Horns thickening towards their ex* 

 tremity, and generally terminating in a knob, 

 or club-fhaped tip. 



Wings (when fitting) erect, and meeting upwards. 

 {Flight diurnal.) 



Specific Character. 



BUTTERFLY with tailed black wings, the mid- 

 die-part blue and radiated, with «7 ocellated 

 fpots on the under furface of the lower wings. 



This is an infect, of uncommon beauty. The wings 

 are of the deepeft velvet black, while the area or mid- 

 dle part of each is polfelfed by a very large bed of the 

 mod exalted blue that can poffibly be conceived, and 

 which terminates in a radiated manner round the edges. 

 This in fed: alfo affords an example of the caudated pa- 

 pilios, in which the lower wings are furnilhed with a 

 pair of appendages refembling tails. It is an Afiatic 

 infect. The ground-colour in fome fpecimens is rather 

 brown than black. The under furface is black, tinged 



with. 



