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fore wings arranged much as in the European species. Most of 
the species are found in the tropical regions of Asia and South 
America. Some of those from the latter are very beautiful, such 
as for instance A. Lucasii, Doubkh, and A. Laurcntia, Godt., from 
the Brazils, which have their nearly black wings handed with 
brilliant green, changing according to the direction of the light to 
a line blue or purple. 
1. — A. Iris, Linn. Syst. Nat. x. 476; Hub. 117 -8 ; Esp. 71 -4. 
Expands 2-25 to 3-25 in. Fore wings dark brown, with ten 
white spots arranged as follows : — One oval-shaped spot rather 
larger than the rest in the centre of the wing, and below this a 
crescentiform spot with its convex side turned outwards, and then 
below this and nearly touching the inner margin a small round 
one ; external to these and near the hind margin are two round 
spots placed one above the other ; above and internal to these last 
are three costal spots placed one above the other, and external to 
them two small ones close to the apex. Hind wings with a broad 
white band running across their centre from the costa to the inner 
margin, broadest at its costal end, and becoming gradually narrow 
towards the inner margin ; on its inferior edge is a spur-like pro- 
jection just where the band crosses the discoidal cell ; near to the 
anal angle is an orange ring, the centre of which is black or 
bluish ; the anal angle itself is marked with orange. The wings in 
the male are short, with rich violet, excepting along the hind 
margins, which are brown, sometimes slightly tinged with fulvous. 
Under side of all the wings light brown, with white bands and 
spots arranged as on the upper surface. The fore wings are 
strongly tinged with reddish orange towards the costa, and towards 
their centre is a black spot with a bluish pupil and surrounded by 
an orange ring ; the hind wings are tinged with reddish brown 
along the edges of the white band, and the anal angle is a round 
l)lack spot with a bluish pupil. The clubs of the auteuna3 are 
black witljout orange ti})S. 1^1. XXXIV., 2. 
Times of Appeaeance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — South Western and Central Europe (including 
