MORPHO ADONIS. 
PLATE XXII. Fig. 1. 
Godart Pap. Adonis, Cramer. PI. Cl, fig. A, B ; Herhst. Pap. 
PI. 2C, fig. 3, 4 ; Esper. Pap. Exotiques, PI. 55, fig. 2. 
As a specimen of that division of Morpho which has 
the upper wings scarcely or not at all concave on 
their outer edge, and the anal angle of the under 
pair prolonged into an obtuse rudimentary tail, we 
have represented a species of great beauty although 
inferior in size to many of its congeners, the expan- 
sion of the wings seldom exceeding three inches and 
a half. The surface of the male, when seen in cer- 
tain directions, is of the most brilliant azure-blue, 
the whole of the exterior margin of the primary 
wings surrounded with black, and near the apex 
are two small white spots, the anterior one longi- 
tudinal, the other orbicular. In the female the blue 
colour has not such a high degree of lustre; the 
posterior margin is widely black, and bears two rows 
of white spots in the upper wings and one row in 
the under. On the under side the colour is greyish- 
brown, with several common oblique bands of a paler 
hue, and three or four oblong ocelli with a white 
