THE 
POLYMNESTOR BUTTERFLY. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna', (or Horns ) thickening towards the up¬ 
per part, and generally terminating in a 
knob, or club-lhaped tip. 
Wings (when fitting) ereft, and meeting upwards. 
(Flight diurnal.) 
Lin. Syjl. Nat. p. 744. 
Specific Character. 
BUTTERFLY with indented black wings, co¬ 
lour of both furfaces nearly the fame, the 
loM r er wings blueilh towards the tips, and 
fpottcd with black. 
This beautiful infedt is one of thofe fpecies which 
are not in the works of Linnaeus. It is an inhabitant 
of Alia. The upper wings are of a deep black, with 
a few longitudinal whitifh clouds towards the tips, and 
a lengthened mark of deep crimfon of a fomevvhat tri¬ 
angular lhape, near the bafe of each. The lower wings 
are of a deep velvet-black at the bafe, and from thence 
of a moll elegant whitifh or extremely pale blue, or, 
namented with fpots of black and know-white. 
