I was very anxious to get it and to find the male, which in this genus is always of extreme beauty.

During the two succeeding months I only saw it once again, and shortly afterwards I saw the male flying high in the air at the mining village.

I had begun to despair of ever getting a specimen, as it seemed so rare and wild; till one day, about the beginning of January, I found a beautiful shrub with large white leafy bracts and yellow flowers, a species of Mussaenda, and saw one of these noble insects hovering over it, but it was too quick for me, and flew away.

The next clay I went again to the same shrub and succeeded in catching a female, and the day after a fine male.

I found it to be as I had expected, a perfectly new and most magnificent species, and one of the most gorgeously coloured butterflies in the world.