PAPILIO VI. 



PAPILIO ZOLICAON, 1-4. 



Papilio Zolicom, BoisJuval, Ann. Soc. Km. do France. \Krl, p. 281. H. Edwanl^;, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1873, p. 3. 



Primaries much produced, strongly arched, hind margin straight or convex; 

 tails long, narrow ; the sexes alike in color and markings. 



Male. — Expands ahout 3.2-3 inches. 



Upper side of primaries black, marked and spotted with deep yellow ; of sec- 

 ondaries yellow from base nearly two thirds the distance to margin, beyond 

 black primaries have a sub-marginal series of eight spots, equal, the anterior 

 ones rounded, the rest either oval or lunular. and a discal series of eiy-ht formint«; 

 a band across the entire wing ; above these last, on the upper sub-costal inter- 

 space, a long patch of yellow scales, and a rounded or oval spot ; the first discal 

 spo^ deeply and roundly excavated on the upper side, sometimes divided into 

 tv, • : the second shorter than the first, and the tliird than the second, after 

 which the sei'ies gradually increases in length to the sixth, the breadth 

 being nearly equal ; the seventh is large, sub-rectangular, the eighth a nar- 

 row stripe on the inner margin ; a narrow yellow bar crosses the cell inside 

 the arc, and near it is a second, also narrow, sometimes compressed in the mid- 

 dle and then expanding largely on sub-costal nervure ; the basal area somewhat 

 dusted with yellow scales. Secondaries have a broad black border which in- 

 closes a sub-marginal series of six yellow spots ; the first, at outer angle, 

 small, often wanting, the next three large and lunular, the fifth at base of tail 

 lunular or sub-triangular, the last a streak near the angle ; in the interspaces 

 above these spots are clusters of light blue scales ; the abdominal margin bor- 

 dered with black to median nervure. leaving at the outer extremity of the sub- 

 median interspace only a small triangular patch of yellow ; above the incision 

 at the anal angle, over a yellow patch, is a ring, varying in color from orange 

 to deep fulvous, which incloses a round or oval black spot, and is edged on the 

 upper side by a blue crescent ; occasionally the ring is wanting, being replaced 

 by black which may have a very narrow edging of fulvous on the lower side ; 

 the rest of wing, which comprises the basal area and much of the disk, yellow, 

 divided into eight spots, the cell being one, by the black nervures ; fringes of 



