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towards the posterior margin), and the third close to the outer margin: the apex of the wings is marked by a large blackish patch. In the hind wings the three bars are also continued across the surface, meeting at the anal angle; the first straight, the second angulated over the tail, and the third forming an arch over the base of the tail, which has two black spots, the outer one with an external orange stripe; the tail slender and curved. The antennæ are black. Expansion of the wings one inch and three-quarters.

This species is from Rio Janeiro, the specimen figured being in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope.

The following also belong to this genus:—

A. machaonaria.—Light cream colour; upper wings with three uninterrupted brown bars, the outermost midway between the middle of the wing and the exterior margin; the apex with two small oblique brown stripes: under wings traversed by two brown bars, recurved to the internal margin, and having a narrow waved line between them; tail angular and acute, with two pear-shaped black spots, surmounted by a short waved brown bar. Expansion of the wings two inches.—Guerin, Icon. des Insectes, pl. 90, fig. 1.

A. geminia.—Cream colour, nearly white; upper wings with three transverse brown bars, the second not reaching to the posterior edge, and the third, which is placed close to the margin, not extending to the apex; the latter unspotted; costa marked with short black lines. The first and outer bar of the upper wings are continued across the under pair, meeting at the anal angle; the external one margined with black, and the tail itself