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URANIA SLOANUS. 
PLATE XXIX. Fig. 1. 
Godart. — Pap. Sloanus, Cramer , PI. 85, fig. E, F. — Pap. Lci- 
lius, Var. Fair Lcilius Oecidentalis, Su-ainson , IUus. 
PI. 129. 
Expands about two inches and a half or three inches ; 
surface deep black ; the upper wings each with six 
or seven transverse lines of golden green, and near 
the middle a band of that colour bifid (sometimes 
trifid) anteriorly. Under wings with a central band 
of bright coppery red, irregularly indented, the 
abdominal margin more or less gilded green ; the 
tail black with a few emerald green spots. Design 
on the under side corresponding to that on the sur- 
face, the green paler. Body black above, with a 
dorsal line of golden green, and another on each 
side ; brownish beneath. 
This handsome species bears the name of the 
celebrated Sir Hans Sloane, the early historian of 
Jamaica, who figured it in his work (PI. 239, fig. 
11, 12). It is accounted a rare insect, and, we be- 
lieve, has hitherto been found only in the West 
Indian Islands. 
