PAPILIO 1. 



PAPILIO EURYMEDON, 1-3. 



Papilio Eurymedon (Eu-n-m'-e-don), Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Eiit. de France, I So2. 

 Var. Albanus, FeUler, Zool. Novara Expeil., pi. 71. 



Male. — Expands about 3.5 inches. 



Upper side pale ochraceous-yellow, or often white with a buft' tint, banded 

 with black ; costa of primaries black, sprinkled near base with yellow scales ; 

 a narrow band covers the bases of wings and abdominal margin ; a second, 

 proceeding from costa against middle of cell, crosses botli wings and intersects 

 the abdominal and marginal bands at lower median nervule, broad anteriorly, 

 tapering gradually towards its other extremity; a third, nearly parallel to 

 second, crosses primaries to sub-median ; a fourth lies outside the disco-cel- 

 lular nervules, stopping at median ; and the fifth, abbreviated, triangular, reaches 

 only the second discoidal nervule ; the disco-central nervules of secondaries 

 edged within by a black stripe, varying in individuals from a line to a heavy 

 band ; hind margins bordered by a wide baiid, within which, on primaries, is 

 a sub-marginal series of separated, long, yellow spots, widest apically, gradually 

 narrowing towards inner angle, and sometimes obsolete below middle of the 

 wing ; on secondaries, anterior to the tail are three narrow bars, yellow, 

 usually more or less tinted with orange, a lunate spot at base of tail, and anotlier 

 near angle, small, often wanting; these two deep orange ; the margin, above the 

 angle, excised, and on the upper part of the curve an orange lunule ; above this 

 on the black ground, a lunate spot composed of blue scales, and still higher a 

 small yellow spot ; on the lower median interspace, in the middle of the black 

 band, is a large patch of blue scales, and small clusters of similar scales are found 

 on the two preceding interspaces, but are often wanting ; that portion of the mar- 

 ginal band which lies within the median interspaces, next the yellow ground, 

 sprinkled with yellow scales ; tail long, slightly spatulate, edged posteriorly by 

 yellow ; fringe of primaries black, of secondaries black at ends of nervules, 

 yellow in the emarginations. 



Under side paler, the black markings repeated ; the sub-marginal spots oi 

 primaries enlarged, forming a continuous stripe, interrupted only by the black 

 nervules ; anterior to this stripe a wavy line of yellow scales ; a similar line 



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