PAPILIO VIII. 



PAPILIO BREVICAUDA, 1-5. 



Papilio Brevicauda, Sauiuicrs. Packard's Guiik-, p. 245. 1869. 



Primaries moderately produced, costal margin mvicli curved apically, hind 

 margin much rounded ; tails short, broad at base ; the sexes alike in shape and 

 markings. 



Male. — Expands about 3 inches. 



Upper side black ; primaries have a sub-marginal series of eight small yellow 

 spots, rounded or oval ; secondaries have a similar series of six spots, large, 

 mostly lunate ; a common yellow band crosses the disks, composed on primaries 

 of eight spots, the upper six sub-triangular, varying in size, the seventh sub- 

 quadrate, the eighth a narrow stripe ; the first of these spots has a circular 

 incision on the costal side ; a stripe or a rounded spot in the upper sub-costal 

 interspace ; the inner side of the arc of cell bordered by a narrow stripe : on 

 secondaries the band consists of seven spots separated only by the black ner- 

 vures ; occasionally the outer extremity of the cell is also yellow ; beyond the 

 band are clusters of blue scales in the interspaces ; above the incision at inner 

 angle is a fulvous ring on the upper side of a yellow patch, surmounted by a blue 

 crescent, and inclosing a rounded black spot or point ; fringes yellow, black at 

 the ends of the nervules. 



Under side blackish-brown ; the .spots repeated, and all but those of the sub- 

 marginal row on primaries usually more or less sufilised with fulvous, individ- 

 uals varying greatly in this respect ; in some there is an absence of fulvous on 

 primaries, and but little on secondaries ; on both wings the space between the 

 row of spots and the band is dusted with yellow scales, most densely on secon- 

 daries, and on these last are patches of blue scales at the anterior edge of the 

 yellow on each interspace ; the ring at tlie angle as on upper side, but often the 

 black spot is joined b}- a ligament to the black edge of the inner margin. 



Body black, the wing covers slightly tinted with yellow ; upon the abdomen is 

 a row of yellow points on either side of tlie dorsum, and a lateral row from base 



