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“beneath, at the external angle are five silver marginal triangles surmounted with 
black;” secondaries underneath “have a pale tawny marginal band, a marginal series 
of seven triangular spots edged with black” None of these characters belong to 
Aphrodite, and unless it be the color — “tawny orange” “and the tawny marginal 
band” — none belong to Cybele. 
Mr. A. Id. Grote, who spent several months the past year (1867) in examin- 
ing the principal entomological collections of Europe, informs me that in none of 
them are these two species separated, sometimes being labeled by one name, some- 
times by the other. 
The description of Cybele by Fabricius is as follows : — 
“Alis dentatis fulvis nigro maculatis: subtus maculis 34 argenteis. 
Papilio Daphnis. Cram. Ins. 5, tab. 57, fig. E. F. 
Habitat in America. 
Statura praecedentium [i. e. Aglaja, Aphrodite,‘&c.]. Alae omnes dentatae, luteae, nigro maculatae. 
Subtus puncta octo in alis anticis et 2G iu posticis argentea. Fascia flavain alis posticis ante marginem.” 
This description is correct in the essential particulars, color luteous, second- 
aries with a yellow band. The exact number of silver spots is immaterial, as in 
both species they vary. 
. The description of Aphrodite is as follows : — 
“Alis dentatis fulvis nigro maculatis : posticis subtus fuscis : maculis 24 argenteis. 
Habitat in America meridionali. 
Medius. Antennae ferrugineae clava nigra, apice ferruginea. Alae supra fulvae, nigro maculatae. 
Subtus anticae fulvae, nigro maculatae punctisque quatuor apicis argenteis. Posticae fuscae fascia apicis 
fiavescente maculisque 24 argenteis.” 
Color fulvous ; fore wing beneath fulvous; hind wings beneath fuscous, that is, 
black and red. 
This description applies particularly to Aphrodite female. 
I therefore present, for the first time, descriptions and figures of the males and 
females of both species. Cybele is the larger, and the difference in color between 
the sexes is much less than in Aphrodite. In the latter the male is much smaller 
in proportion to the female, is brighter colored than Cybele, and has very little 
brown at base of wings. The black markings are noticeably more delicate, the 
marginal lines on primaries nearer together, more or less excluding the fulvous 
spots which, in Cybele, are distinct along the whole margin. The margin of 
secondaries also has an edge line like the primaries ; the median band is formed 
of small crescents, separated by wide spaces and obsolete on costal margin ; and 
there is no black space between the costal and subcostal as in Cybele. On the un- 
der side the silver marginal and costal spots are decided, while in Cybele they are 
usually wanting, or indicated by a few scales only ; the basal color of secondaries 
is cinnamon-brown, and the band is more or less encroached on by the ground 
color ; the pyriform spot of third row is cut by the arc as in Cybele, but the smaller 
