CHAR AXES JASIDS. 
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as the projecting angles, two of which are prolonged 
into tails. Beneath, the anterior portion of all the 
wings is rust-red, marked with spots and transverse 
stripes of olive-brown, encircled with white ; beyond 
this there is a white band of a satiny lustre, bordered 
externally on the upper wings with dusky lunules ; 
the space beyond these lunules is fulvous, traversed 
by a hand of slate-grey, with a series of black spots, 
inclining to triangular, on the inner side of it. Be- 
yond the white band on the secondary wings there 
is a row of ferruginous spots, succeeded by an olive- 
coloured space hearing a row of violet-blue points ; 
the posterior band similar to that on the upper side. 
Head and thorax rust-brown ; abdomen dull brown, 
with greyish hairs ; antennae black, proboscis shining 
rust-red. 
The female scarcely differs in appearance from the 
male, except in having the under side of the hinder 
wings finely sprinkled in the middle with blue points. 
“ The Jasius butterfly is one of the largest, rarest, 
and most beautiful of the European diurnal Lepi- 
doptera. It occurs in the southern countries of 
France, for example, in the neighbourhood of Lyons, 
the Isles d’Hicres, near Toulon and Montpellier; 
also in Italy, Sicily, Corsica, some parts of Northern 
Africa, and in Asia Minor. Lefcbure de Cerisy of 
Toulon has payed considerable attention to the 
metamorphoses of this fine insect. The caterpillar, 
which in its early stage is green, becomes after- 
wards of a yellowish hue, and its skin is as it were 
shagreened and transversely plaited. Its head is 
