PAPILIO 1. 



PAPILIO Aj.\:x. 



Papilio A/ax, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. II, p. 750. Fali. Syst. Eiit. p. 455. * 



Var. Wa/shii. 



AJax. Bois. & Lee. text, (not plate) p. 4; ibid, Spec. Gen. I. p. 258. 



Afcfrrel'us, Cramer, pi. 98. 

 Sub-var. Alholii. 



Ajax, Abbot, Ins. Ga. pi. 4. 



AJax, Felder, Spec. Lepid. p. 15. 

 Var. Tr/amonidts, Felder, Zool. Novara Exped.; ibid, Spec. Lepid. p. 15. 



AJdx, Godart, Eno. Meth. IX, p. 53. Bois. & Lee. pi. 1, (not test). 

 Var. jl/((rw//((s, Boisduval. Bois. & Lee. p. 8, pi. 2; ibid. Spec. Gen. 1, p. 257. Felder, ^pec. 



Lepid. p. 1 5. 



AJax, E.sper, Eur. Scliuiett. 1, pi. 51. Hiibner, Esut. Samrul. Sehmett. 



AJAX.— Yak. WALSHII. 



Primaries broad, but little produced apically ; costa moderately arclied ; bind 

 margin iu male concave, in female convex ; tail sbort, narrow ; tborax covered 

 witb long bairs ; frontal bairs long and bristling. 



Male. — Expands from 2.G to 2.8 incbes. 



Upper side pale black, marked and banded witb greenisb-yellow ; tbe bind 

 margin broadly edged witb black wbicb is mucb advanced on costa of primaries 

 and encloses a yellow band, divided by tbe uervures into spots tbat posteriorly 

 are lunate ; on tbe costa a yellow spot and a strij^e tbat readies from costal edge 

 to inferior corner of cell ; preceding tbis is a broad common yellow band tbat termi- 

 nates on middle of secondaries and encloses on costal margin of primaries a variable 

 black stripe, bar or spot, often nearly obsolete ; next, a black band bifid on co.sta and 

 enclosing tbere a yellow strij^e ; and a second yellow band, narrow, terminating at 

 a point below tbe first ; bases of botli wings and abdominal margin of secondaries 

 black ; on primaries a yellow streak quite at base. 



Secondaries regularly dentated, tbe excavations fringed witb pale yellow; 

 tails of moderate lengtb, straigbt, varying in widtb in individuals, often very 

 narrow, black, tijiped only witb j^ale yellow and sligbtly edged witb same color at 

 base on eitlier side; along bind margin four wbitisb lunules; near angle two lunu- 

 lar clusters of blue scales on tbe black ground, above tbe bindmost of wbicb is a 



