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IS. Pap. Demoleus. Linne. 

 Pap. Demolem. Eoesel, lus. Add. t. 1. f. 2, 3. (1746).* 



Linn. Syst. Nat. I. p. 753. n. 46. (1767). 



Cram., III. t. 231. f. A. B. (1782j. 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 34. n. 101. (1793). 



Herbst, Pap. t. 36. f. 3. 4. (1796). 



Donov., Ins. China. PI. 29. f. 1. (1798). 



Pal. de Beauv. Ins. Afr. et. Araer. t. 2. b. f. 2. (1805). 



Godt. Encyc. IX. p. 43. n. 52. (1S19). 



Boisd. Faune. de Madag. p. 12. (1834). 



Lucas, Pap. Exot. p. t. 9. f. 2. (1835). 



Boisd.. Sp. Gen. I. p. 237. n. 60. (1836). 



E. Doubled., Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 6. (1844). 



Westw., Are. Ent. p. 148. (1845). 



Diurnal Lepidoptera, I. p. 12. n. 70. (1846). 



G. R. Gray, Cat. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 21. n. 91. (1852). 

 Orpheides Demoleua. Hiibn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 86. (1816). 

 Princeps dominans Demoleus. Hiibn., Samml. Exot. Schmett. 1. 1. 115. (1806-1824). 

 Papilio Demodocus. Esper, Ausl. Schmett. t. 51. f. 1. (1801). 



Wings black, thickly powdered with yellow atoms ; the anterior 

 wings have a number of une({md, irregular and scattered yellow spots 

 on the disc; a double row of yellow mai'ks on the exterior margin, of 

 which the marginal are much the smallest, and are situated upon the 

 indentations; the base and costal margin are marked with yellow 

 points. 



Posterior wings are travei'sed above the middle by a nearly straight 

 yellow line, having an ocellus trpon each extremity; that infringing on 

 the costal border is slightly reddish, and surrounded by a blue iris; that 

 on the abdominal margin has the superior half, blue, the inferior, red- 

 dish-brown ; the outer margin is obtusely dentate, and furnished with 

 the double row of marginal lunules, as in the fore wings; expanse 3.75 

 inches. 



Under surface paler than above, and possessing all its characteristics, 

 with the addition of having the base rayed with yellow. 



The posterior wings also present upon a deeper ground color than the 

 rest of the surface, six reddish spots, inwardly edged with blue, of 

 which one is at the extremity of the discoidal cellule ; the other five 

 forming an irregular transverse band beyond it, upon the disc. Fol- 



*The remarks made upon the synonymy of Pap. Polytes, are equally appli- 

 cable in this and similar cases. 



