Foreign Butterflies

Foreign Butterflies is a lepidopterical work by William Jardine. Jardine was a Scottish naturalist, here presenting a wide array of butterfly species. Excerpt: «The above description applies to one of the female varieties of P. Memnon, which was usually regarded as a distinct species and known by the name of Agenor. Indeed it is so unlike the male, 98that authors would probably never have thought of associating them, had they not been reared from the same description of caterpillar. The male is entirely without the basal red spot, and the dark ground colour has a greenish reflection; the upper wings have a red or ochreous spot at the base on the under side, and there are likewise four small red marks on the same part of the inferior wings: the latter are deep black anteriorly and cinereous behind; the cinereous portions containing two rows of deep black rounded spots, that next the anal angle encircled with yellow. P. Androgeos of Cramer (pl. 91, A. B.) is a variety of this sex, while the P. Anceus, and P. Laomedon, of the same iconographist are varieties of the female.»