Total length, twelve inches and a half; bill, from the angle of the mouth to the tip, two inches three tenths long, and eight tenths across the base; the colour (which appears little changed from that in the live state) is deep straw, or buff yellow; the top of the upper mandible and tips of both are black; parallel with the marginal base of the upper, is a black line, which is very broad on that of the lower; the edges of both are serrated, and marked by short black lines, somewhat resembling oriental characters; at the base of the bill there is an elevated rim of deeper yellow; the ears, chin, and throat are deep chesnut, margined in front with a narrow line of black, (which parts in the male are entirely black;) the crown of the head and neck above also black, changing to a dark bluish green on the wings, back, and tail; the rump crimson, and the greater quills blackish; from the breast to the vent straw-coloured yellow, with a greenish cast; the thighs and flanks olive; tail wedged, near five inches long; the orbits appear to have been black, and the feet green. Mr. Bullock informed me he had the two sexes of this bird sent him from the interior of Guyana. * * * * * Pl. 91 [Illustration] LICINIA Amphione. * * * * * GENERIC CHARACTER.--See Pl. 15. * * * * * SPECIFIC CHARACTER. _L. alis integris, supra nigris; anticarum basi maculo aurantiaco, triradiato, medio fascia flava, apice maculo flavo ornatis; posticis striga aurantiaca, margine ferrugineo; antennarum clavis albis_. Wings entire, above black; anterior with a three rayed orange spot at the base, and a central bend and terminal spot of yellow; posterior with an orange stripe and brownish margin; club of the antennae white. Papilio Amphione. _Cramer_, _pl._ 232. _f._ EF. Pieris Amphione. _Godart in Ency. Meth._ vol. 9. p. 165. (Female.) * * * * *