The Aurora Morpho (Morpho aurora) is a Neotropical butterfly found in Bolivia and Peru. M. aurora agrees with portis Hbn. in the shape of the wings and the arrangement of the black distal spots. Upper surface with light blue, distally darkening gloss. Under surface grey-white, with mother-of-pearl gloss, basal area purple. The ocelli show through distinctly above and are yellow in the midde with white crescents and sharply ringed with black. On the forewing four or five, on the hindwing always four eyespots, the apical one sometimes doubled, being accompanied anteriorly by a halved eye-spot. The species flies rather high; Garlepp met with it at Cocapata in Bolivia at elevations of about 2600 m.