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The Colours of Wings in Butterflies

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YOUR correspondent in India, W. G. B. (NATURE, February 13, p. 344), has been examining a butterfly in some ways like the Morpho Cypris of South America, the difference being that the latter has the upper side brilliant and the lower side brown.

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CROFT, W. The Colours of Wings in Butterflies. Nature 65, 391–392 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065391c0

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