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ORNITHOPTERA PEIAMU3. 
hinder wings corresponds to the surface, hut the 
green is of a more golden hue, and the circular spots 
larger, and seven in number. The antennae, head, 
and thorax, black — the latter with a central line 
and two posterior spots of golden green; breast 
spotted with red on the sides ; abdomen bright 
yellow. 
The female is considerably larger, frequently 
measuring nearly eight inches between the tips of 
the wings. The prevailing colour is dark brown, 
deepening towards the extremities of the wings ; 
the upper pair traversed by a macular band of im- 
pure white, the spots unequal and generally inter- 
rupted or notched ; the hinder pair having a curved 
row of six large wedge-shaped spots behind, of a 
whitish colour powdered with black, the base tinged 
with yellow, and each with an orbicular black spot 
in the centre. Head and thorax entirely black, the 
abdomen whitish yellow above and deep yellow 
beneath. 
Varieties of both sexes have occurred, for there 
seems little reason to doubt that the insect figured 
by Guerin ( Voyage de la Coquille , Ins., pi. 13, fig. 
1 and 2) under the name of P. urvillianus, is a 
variety of the male, while a female variety is de- 
scribed by Boisduval*. In the former, the green 
of the superior wings is replaced by violet-blue of a 
very brilliant tint, and in the hinder part that colour 
runs in a broad stripe along the nervures, dilating 
Voyage de 1'Aslrolabe, Ent., pi. 4, fig. 1 and 2. 
