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thorax are not always to be seen on this the Trojan 
Monarch. The Papilio Priamus is a very rare 
insect, and is a native of the island of Amboyna. 
P. Antenor is a very large species, measuring 
six inches and a half in extent of wings: its colour 
is black, with numerous cream-coloured spots and 
patches, and- the under-wings, which are tailed or 
furnished with a pair of lengthened processes in 
the middle, are edged with a row of red crescent- 
shaped spots. It is said to be a nativ^e of India. 
P. Hector is very happily named, being of a 
deep or velvet black colour, with the lower wings 
marked by numerous blood-red spots: the thorax 
is red on each side, and the upper wings have a 
pair of obscure, broken, whitish, transverse clouds 
or bars. It is a native of the East Indies. 
P. Sarpedon is a highly elegant species: the 
wings are of a lengthened shape, and the lower 
pair are stretched downwards into a pointed pro- 
cess: the whole animal is black, with a broad, 
interrupted pea-green stripe or band passing 
through all the wings : on the lower part is also a 
border of crescent-shaped green spots. 
Among the Eqnites Achivi the P. Menelaiis 
may be considered as one of the most splendidly 
beautiful of the Butterfly tribe. Its size is large, 
measuring, when expanded, about six inches- and 
its colour is the most brilliant silver-blue that ima- 
gination can conceive, changing, according to the 
variation of the light, into a deeper blue, and in 
some lights to a greenish cast: on the under side 
it is entirely brown, with nunierous deeper and 
