by William Swainson

“ That we should find this form in a group where the chief character is the roundness and the integrity of the wings, is certainly astonishing; but it shews that the laws of Nature are as simple, as they are universal. ”

“ Copper coloured above, with silvery spots beneath. Antennæ cylindrical, thickening from the base: the tip truncate.
Specific Character.
Wings above coppery, with black dots, their basal half-shining blue; beneath fulvous; the posterior varied with ferruginous, and marked by silvery spots.
Pap. Naïs. Cramer, pl. 57, fig. D. E.
In every natural group of the diurnal Lepidoptera which we have analysed, (and the number is somewhat considerable,) there is always one in which the posterior wings are more than usually tailed ”