PAPILIO VIII. 



of wing to last segment ; legs and palpi black ; frontal hairs black, as are also 

 the antennoe. 



Female. — Expands 3.25 inches. 



Similar to the male in shape and markings, but more variable in color. In 

 the typical specimen, which is a female (Figs. 3, 4), from Newfoundland, the 

 band on upper side is wholly of deep fulvous, except the first spot, which is 

 yellow ; on secondaries the anterior edge and the two sides of each spot of the 

 band are yellow, the posterior parts only being fulvous, and of a less intense 

 shade than appears on primaries ; all the other spots on both wings are yellow, 

 except the one at outer angle of secondaries, which is partly fulvous ; on the 

 under side the sub-marginal spots of primaries are yellow, of secondaries partly 

 fulvous ; the band on primaries is fulvous throughout, and on secondaries nearly 

 so, there being a very narrow edging of yellow to each spot, excejjt on the pos- 

 terior side of it. 



In three other examples from Newfoundland, sent me by Mr. Saunders, and all 

 of which are females, there is much variation in the extent of the fulvous col- 

 oration on the upper side. One of these (Fig. 5) has no trace of fulvous on 

 secondaries, except a few scales on a single spot of the disk, while on primaries 

 the four posterior spots of the band are fidvous, except a narrow edge of yellow 

 on the basal side of each. The second has a slight wash of fulvous over each 

 spot of the band and on both wdngs ; and the third has all the spots of the band 

 deep fulvous, except only those next the costa of each wing, which are yellow. 

 The Newfoundland specimens show far more fulvous as a rule than those from 

 Anticosti. These last most often have none of that color upon the upper side, 

 but some are partly suffused with it. 



Egg. — Spherical, flattened at base, smooth ; pale yellow. 



" The young larva3 are black when they issue from the egg, but the whitish 

 patch on middle segments can be distinguished at this stage. At about a week 

 old they are black, and the patch is pale yellow, mottled with black ; surface 

 covered with short tubercles. At the next stage, the length being .25 in., the 

 color is dark brown, and the patch is replaced by a whitish band which encircles 

 the body, and is mottled with black." (Mr. Wm. Couper in lit.) 



Mature Larva. — Length 1-5 inch. 



Cylindrical, slendei", thickest at .third and fourth segments, tapering slightly 

 from fourth to the last, and rapidly from third to the head ; when at rest the 

 head is drawn partly within the second, and all the anterior segments are con- 

 tracted, the dorsum being arched ; the middle of each segment crossed trans- 

 versely by a black stripe, which is complete on second to fifth, but from sixth to 

 twelfth is broken into three spots, the central or dorsal being round, the others 



