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VARIABLE BLUE AND BROWN BUTTERFLY. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings indented, brown. On the upper fide twoveyes in each, and another on the under fide of the 
anterior wings. 
Papitio OrnyTuia: alis dentatis fufcis: omnibus fupra ocellis duobus, anticis fubtus unico. Lin. Syft. 
Not. 2. 770. 130. 
Fab. Syft. Ent. 2. part 1. p. Ql. 284. 

The varieties of Papilio Orythia are numerous, and feem to differ according to climate of the countries 
of which they are natives. It is common in North America, Jamaica, India, &c. The variety from North 
America is almoft wholly brown, and thofe from Jamaica have lefs blue in the difk of the lower wings, 
than thofe from China. 
Papilio Clelia of Cramer, which is found on the coaft of Guinea, has been fuppofed a variety of Papilio 
Orythia. Fabricius, in the Entomologia Syflematica, has made it a diftin& fpecies. It greatly refembles 
P. Orythia, but has no more blue colour on the pofterior wings than is concentrated in a large fpot near 
the bafe. 

PAPILIO ALMANA. 
DOUBLE-EYE ANGULATED BUTTERFLY. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings angulated, brown, varied with black marks; a large eye with two pupils in the middle, on the 
pofterior wings. Beneath, entirely brown. 
Paritio AtmaNA: alis angulatis fulvis nigro maculatis: pofticis océllo majori; pupilla gemina, omnibus 
fubtus brunneis. Linn. Sy/?. Nat. 2. 760. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. 3. p. 1. 278, 
SS 
The angulated form of the wings of this butterfly gives it a remarkable appearance. The eyes on the 
‘wings fomewhat refemble thofe of the Peacock butterfly, to which, in fome other refpects, it bears no 
diftant fimilitude. It is common in China; Fabricius gives its habitat Afia. 
