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PERIDROMIA AMPHINOME. 
PLATE XVIII. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Amphinome, Linn. Cramer , PI. 54, fig. E, F RoeseL's 
Ins. i. Pi. 10, fig. 1,2 ; Merian, Ins . Surin. PI. 8 Le Papier 
Marbre de la Chine, Daubenton , PI. enl. 92, fig. 7, 8. 
Bears considerable resemblance to the preceding on 
the upper side, the ground colour being glossy black, 
the whole surface variegated with waved streaks and 
spots of greenish-blue ; these markings frequently 
assume the appearance of hieroglyphics, and towards 
the hinder margin of the inferior wings they indis- 
tinctly represent a series of oval ocelli. Both sexes 
have a broad oblique white band across the upper 
wings, but it is sinuated on the edges, while in the 
female of P. Arethusa the edges are always entire. 
On the under side the general colour is brown ; the 
upper wings with a triangular red patch at the base, 
the colour between this and the central white band 
is black glossed with green ; beyond the white band 
are two rows of white points, one of them lying 
along the margin. The under wings have the ante- 
rior half red, that colour divided by rays of greenish- 
black, which occupies the whole of the hinder 
portion, except where it is interrupted by a few' 
