Thank you for your comment. I had to dig up a reference for a real butterfly that lives in the Mediterranean area for Psyche. Why go to the trouble? It's part of the symbolism I merged together to make her. She's a wildcat because the Egyptians envisioned the soul as a winged cat. The Greeks and various Renaissance artists gave Psyche the wings of a butterfly. I chose the Plain Tiger ([i]Danaus chrysippus[/i]) because it looked good and was native to Greece. (If you see a picture with two cherubs with one having the wings of a butterfly, then you knows they're not cherubs or angels, but Cupid and Psyche (Love and the Soul).)

Weirdly enough, when I first conceived Jill Psyche over a decade ago, she was a bear with standard bird wings by the name of Hilary Psyche. Go figure.