PARNASSIUS II-IV. 



PARNASSIUS SMINTHEUS. 



Paniiixsiitx SmiiitJieua, (Suiin'-the-us) Doubleday, Gen. Diur. Lep. pi. 4, 1847. EJw. I'roc. Acud. 2\at. 

 goi. riiil. 1SG2. 

 P/utbxs, var. Kirby, Cat. p. 511, 1871. 

 Var. S'li/ii, 9 , EJw. Proc. Eiit. Soc. Phil. 1SG3. 

 ? JVomioH, Bois. Ann. Soc. Eiit. de Fr. 1852. 

 Var. Bchru, S , EJw. Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. 1870. 

 In/crmeJius, Menetries, Eaum. Corp. Auim. 5Ius. St. Petersburg, 1855, p. 72. 



Male. — Expands from l.~) to '2.') inches. 



Upper side pure white, Bcmi-transparent at apex and sometimes narrowly ahmg 

 liind margin as far as tlic upjier or even tlie second branch of median ; but most often 

 the margin is bordered by white serrations, anterior to which the tran.sparent space 

 takes the form of a narrow serrated band; primaries have also an extra-discal 

 row of spots, or rather of clusters of scales, sometimes limited to the costal mar- 

 gin, sometimes extending quite across the wing, or of any intermediate length; 

 these spots are either dead-black and conspicuous, or delicate and pale-colored; on 

 the arc an irregular black spot, sometimes terminating at the sub-costal nervure, 

 but more often reaching the costal, and in form either sub-mtund or a curved l)ar, 

 sometimes duplex, that portion between the two nervures then being nearly or en- 

 tirely separated from the other and advanced towards ba.se of wing; a second spot in 

 cell starting from the sub-costal, sometimes also large, rounded, and at others a nar- 

 row bar, but never quite reaching median nervure; costal edge of primaries densely 

 irrorated with coarse black scales, as is also the base and basal portion of cell ; beyond 

 cell are two, sometimes three black spots, each j^npiHed with crimson ; this color 

 is often wholly wanting, or is jJresent on the costal spot only; another black sjjot is 

 usually found on the middle of inner margin, either with or without a crim- 

 son pupil. 



Secondaries black at base and along abdominal margin quite up to cell, the 

 basal third of which it covers, and often sends a curved branch around the 

 extremity; hind margin sometimes immaculate, but in most cases bordered by a 

 row of rounded black spots and points, which extend more or less across the wing; 

 on middle of costal margin a crimson spot and another on disk, each in black ring 

 and of variable size, but usually small; these spots differ in shades of color in in- 



