_Under Side._ Palpi and legs pale yellow. Breast grey. Abdomen yellowish. Wings with the {19}black spots much stronger, and the green spots more distinct than on the upper side. The general colour of the wings is much lighter, with a broadish cream-coloured bar running along the external edges, which, being separated by the tendons of the wings, appear like distinct streaks. Wings dentated. VANESSA DELIUS. Plate XIV. fig. 5, 6. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._ GENUS. VANESSA, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Hamadryades, _Hübn._ Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) _Drury_. VANESSA DELIUS. Alis dentatis suprà fulvis basi extimoque fuscis, anticis apice strigâ punctorum alborum; posticis maculâ discoidali oblongâ ocellisque duobus analibus nigris, his extus caudatis, illis falcatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 5 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Nymph. Phal.) Delius, _App. vol._ 3. (1783.) Papilio N. Eurocilia, _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 79. _No._ 247. (1793.) Vanessa Demonica, _Latr. & God. Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 301. _No._ 14. (1819.) HABITAT: Sierra Leone, with the two preceding (_Drury_). "In Indiis" (_Fabr._). America? (_Enc. Méth._). _Upper Side._ Antennæ black. Thorax and abdomen red-brown. Anterior wings nearly black at the base, and also half of them next the tips, whereon are five small white spots, the middle of them being of a dark orange. Posterior wings also black at the base; each of them is furnished with two tails, the outward ones the longest; the external edges being bordered with dark brown, almost black, and all the middle part of the wing is dark orange. _Under Side._ Palpi and legs yellowish. Breast dark brown. Abdomen yellowish. Wings with blackish and dark brown spots and marks, not to be distinctly described. Anterior wings with a broad yellowish bar crossing them from the anterior edges to the lower corners; while the posterior are also remarkable for a blueish patch placed between the outer tails and the abdominal corners. The locality given by our author is evidently correct, because he was furnished with information respecting its habits by Mr. Smeathman, who stated that it breeds chiefly near open and cultivated spots, or in recent plantations, and sports in the sun like the Acrææ. PLATE XV. [Illustration] MORPHO LAERTES. Plate XV. fig. 1. ORDER: Lepidoptera. SECTION: Diurna. FAMILY: Nymphalidæ, _Swains._ GENUS. MORPHO, _Fabr. Latr. God._ Papilio (Equit. Achiv.), _Drury_. MORPHO LAERTES. Alis subdentatis, utrinque margaritaceo-albis, anticarum fasciâ costali nigrâ, posticis subtus strigâ ocellorum lunulisque marginalibus. (Expans. Alar. 6 unc. 3 lin.) SYN. Papilio (Eq. Achiv.) Laertes, _Drury_, _App. vol._ 3. _Esper Pap. Exot._ _tab._ 43. _f._ 2. _Fabr. Ent. Syst._ III. 1. _p._ 84. _No._ 262. _Enc. Méth._ ix. _p._ 444. (Morpho L.)