,■ M E N E L A U Sr 
OR THE 
‘SILVER-BLUE BUTTERFLY,' 
Generic Character. 
The Antenna or Horns thickening towards the 
upper part* and generally terminating in a 
knob, or club-fhaped tip. 
The Wings (when fitting) ereft, and meeting 
upwards. [Flight diuynal,) 
Specific Character, &e.. 
BUTTERFLY with indented wings; the upper 
furface of a brilliant blue, the lower clouded- 
brown ; and marked with large ocellated 
Mer. Snrin. t. 53, 
Cram. Inf. 2. t. 21. Clerk, ic. t. 21. f. 1, 
So uncommonly bright and brilliant is this fuperb 
infeed, that it can but faintly be expreffed by the 
utmoft efforts of artificial colouring ; and may ferve 
as an inftance, amongft many others, of the inimi¬ 
table beauty which Nature alone can produce. 
Linnaeus 
