it emits a single branchlet, which is furcate; moreover, the vein connecting the postcostal and medial veins in the middle of the wing is incomplete, so that the great cell is posteriorly open.
The wings are shining, the anterior steel-blue, each with about fourteen white marks of variable form arranged thus 1 3 3 3 . 1 . 3; besides which there are several minute white dots near the apex of the wing; there is also a rich shining orange spot on the costa, near the base, and three transverse bars of the same colour between the white spots: the hind wings are white, with a broad black margin; the thorax is steel-blue, with six white spots; the tippets have an orange spot at the base, with the apex white; the scutellum has also a white spot; the abdomen is steel-blue; the legs are black, with white marks.
Cramer's specimen was from the island of Curaçoa. That here figured is from the island of St. Domingo, and is contained in the cabinet of the Rev. F. W. Hope. The expansion of the wings is one inch and a quarter.
