PLATE XXII. Fig. 1.
_Godart._--Pap. Adonis, _Cramer_, Pl. 61. fig. A, B; _Herbst. Pap._
Pl. 26, fig. 3, 4; _Esper. Pap. Exotiques_, Pl. 55, fig. 2.
As a specimen of that division of Morpho which has the upper wings
scarcely or not at all concave on their outer edge, and the anal angle
of the under pair prolonged into an obtuse rudimentary tail, we have
represented a species of great beauty although inferior in size to
many of its congeners, the expansion of the wings seldom exceeding
three inches and a half. The surface of the male, when seen in certain
directions, is of the most brilliant azure-blue, the whole of the
exterior margin of the primary wings surrounded with black, and near
the apex are two small white spots, the anterior one longitudinal, the
other orbicular. In the female the blue colour has not such a high
degree of lustre; the posterior margin is widely black, and bears two
rows of white spots in the upper wings and one row in the under. On the
under side the colour is greyish-brown, with several common oblique
bands of a paler hue, and three or four oblong ocelli with a white
pupil and a black iris surrounded by a yellow ring; the anal angle
marked with short undulating black lines. Body brownish-black above,
concolorous with the same face of the wings beneath.
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