488 [December 



retractile processes ia the head ; stigmatae black ; lower part of abdo- 

 men yellowish. 



Boisduval says it feeds upon umbelliferous plants. 



27. Pap. Machaon, Linne. 



Pap. Machaon. Roesel, Ins. I. ii. t. 1. (1746). 



Linn. Syst. Nat. II. p. 750. n. 3.3. (1767). 



Herbst, Pap. t. 45. f. 1, 2. (1788). 



Fabr. Ent. Syst. III. i. p. 30. n. 87. (1793). 



Hubn., Eur. Schmett. f. 390, 391. (1805-1824). 



Godt. Encyc. IX. p. 57. n. 89. (1819). 



Boisd., Sp. Gen. I. p. 328. n. 171. (1836). 



Kollar. in Hiigel's Kaschmir. Pt. II. p. 406. (1842). 



Herrich-Schaffer. Eiirop. Schraett. t. 116. (1843). 



E. Doubled., List. Lep. Br. Mus. Pt. I. p. 15. (1844). 



G. R. Gray, Lep. Ins. of Nepaul. p. fi. t. 3. f. 1. (1846). 



Diurnal Lepidoptera. I. p. 16. n. 158. (1846). 



G. R. Gray. Cat. Lep Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 37. n. 180. (1852). 



Nat. Library, XXIX. Duncan, p. 94. PI. 4. f. 1. (1855). 



G. R. Gray. List. Lep. Brit. Mus. Pt. I. p. 50. (1856). 



Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. Co.. I. p. 111. n. 224. (1857). 

 Picris Machaon. Schrank. 



Ja.wniades Machaon. Hubn., Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 83. (1816). 

 Amari/ssus Machaon. Dalm. Konigl. Vel. Acad. Holm. XXXVII. p. 85. (1S16). 



Upper surface, fore wings, base black, powdered with yellow; abroad 

 marginal band of the same color, sinuate internally, and containing 

 eight semi-circular yellow spots, preceded by yellow atoms, parallel with 

 the outer margin, which is narrowly edged with yellow; central portion 

 of wing yellow, having three large black patches on the costal margin, 

 one within the discal areole, one at its extremity, and the third just 

 beyond ; nervules broadly bordered with black. 



Posterior wings yellow ; abdominal margin dusky, clothed with long 

 yellow hairs ; a very broad marginal black band, sinuate and sharply 

 dentate interiorly, containing six large yellow lunules, which are pre- 

 ceded by a row of the same, very imperfectly defined, formed of blue 

 atoms, and followed by a marginal series of yellow crescents placed 

 on the indentations; a large round red spot on the anal angle, surmounted 

 by a violet-blue arc anteriorly, and almost encircled by a black line ; 

 nervules dusky, and disco-cellular nervules marked with a black streak ; 

 tail black, linear; expanse 3.5 — i inches. 



Under surface resembles the upper, the most considerable differences 



