NORTH AMERICAN BUTTERFLIES. 



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scarcely isolated spot in the central cell, in its line, Fig. 10, h. Ex- 

 pands 5.00. Habitat, Southern Arizona, Texas, and probably Florida. 



22. PAPILIO POLYDAMAS Lixx. 

 Red-spotted Black Butterfly. 



Size, medium. Tails, absent, but the posterior margin of the hind 

 ■wings are quite deeply indented, Fig. 9, a. Above, dark brown with 

 a greenish luster to the hind wiags. A band of dull orange spots begins 

 on the middle of the fore wings, extending to the lower margin, thence 

 on to the hind wings, where it becomes continuous and reaches to the 

 inner angle which is without a black spot. Beneath, darker, with a sub- 

 marginal row of seven red spots on the hind wings, and with the orange 

 spots repeated on the fore wings. Body, black, with a narrow orange 

 stripe on side and orange spots on collar. Expands about o.50. 



Habitat, Cuba, Mexico, and occasionally Florida. 



Illustrating the genus Papilio. a, arizonensis, tail; b, ihoas, letl hind wing, lower side; c, croB- 

 phontes, same. 



GENUS II. PARNASSIUS. 

 MOUNTAIN BUTTERFLIES. 



Size, medium. Antennae, rounded, with cIuIj short. 

 Wings, short and rounded, portions being semi-transparent; 

 secondaries without tails or scallops. Colors, white or yel- 

 lowish-white, conspicuously marked with spots of red or 

 orange, usually with the former. Female, pro\'ided with 

 a corneous appendage in the form of a pouch, situated on 



