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Surinamische Schmetterlinge
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Insects. XXX. Vol. IV. No. 77., BUTTERFLIES OF SURINAM., Fig. 1. et 2. The Eurilochus. (Papilio Eurilochus.), No part of the world is so rich in large and fine butterflies than the European Colony of Surinam on theEaftern coaft of fouth-America. The warm and damp Climate feems to forward the increafe of these beautiful insects which amaze us so osten with their size and the beauty of their superb col ours. We fee hère the Eurilochus one of the largest Day-Eutterflies of Surinam represented ou its two sides. It measures in breadth from wing to vving more than seven inebes and about 3* inches in length. The large upperwings are brown lined with an orange border and variesated with yellowishbands and eyes. The underwings are of a fhining blacsc and also edged with an orange border which highly increafes the beauty of the butterfly. Towards the body the underwings are yellow, the yollow colour being difpofed with the utznoft accuracy in an arcuate fegment. The outfide of the wings is marbled with yelîow and brown and particularly adorned with an eye of a dark violet colour which is lined with a yellow border having a white crefeent in its middle. Though the colours of ihis butterfly be not so very brillant, yet their pleafant mixture gives the insects a peculiar charm and heauty.
