THE PHAROS BUTTERFLY. 
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broad pale yellow band traversed and edged with wavy 
black lines, which with the black veins divide it into a series 
of checkers ; on the shoulders of these wings a long pale 
yellow spot surrounded with black, behind which are three 
square ones of the same colors, contiguous by their sides, 
and behind these two more joining each other by their 
angles. 
Expands inch. 
I think it possible that this species may be distinct from 
the Ismeria^ which is known to me only by Dr. Boisduval’s 
fio;ure.* The wincrs are short and broad, and the feelers 
longer and more slender at their tips than in the Phaeton. 
In the markings of the under side of its hind wings it ap¬ 
proaches to the Maturna^ Cynthia.^ and Ossianus of Europe. 
The only specimen which I have seen was sent to me by 
Dr. D. S. C. H. Smith of Sutton. 
Melitcea Pharos, Drury. Pharos Butterfly. (Fig. IIG, male. 
Pig. 117, female.) 
Wings short and broad, tawny-orange above, with a broad 
black hind border, on which is a row of narrow tawny cres¬ 
cents, atid before these a row of round black spots, much 
Fig. 116. 
Fig. 117. 
more distinct on the hind than on the fore wine's : the rest 
of the wings, from the middle to the base, is marked with 
narrow black spots, running together like network ; and 
on the fore wings is a large black spot, extending nearly 
half across the wing ; the under side of the fore wings is 
tawny, variegated with black and brown, with a buff-colored 
* Hist, des L^pidopt. de I’Am^rique Septent., pi. 46 . 
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