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PAVONIA TEUCER. 
PLATE XXII. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Teucer, Linn.—Merian, Surinam Ins. PI. 23 ; Cramer, 
PI. 51, fig. A, 13. 
Extent of the wings from fiye to six inches ; the 
surface of the primary pair of a livid hue at the base 
and dark brown at the extremity, the latter colour 
traversed by a yellow flexuose line near the middle 
of the secondary wings, slate-blue anteriorly, and 
black behind. On the under side the wings are 
very richly mottled, the ground colour being light 
brown, variegated with numerous undulating black 
lines, the anterior pair with five very irregular yel- 
lowisli-white transverse bands, and four ocellated 
spots near the apex, the hinder one larger than the 
others, surrounded by a yellow ring and having a 
white point within, not in the centre, but inclining 
to the inner side : the secondary pair with three 
broad indistinct whitish bands, and near the mid- 
dle three ocelli, the intermediate one minute, the 
hinder very large and surmounted by a black arch. 
The body is dark brown above. 
This insect inhabits an extensive tract of the 
warmer parts of South America. 
