PAPILIO IX. 



PAPILIO INDRA, 1—4. 



Pajnlio Indra, Rcakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., VI., p. 123, j, 18GG. Putnam, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. 

 Sci., I., pi. 35, 9, 1876. 



Ppjmaries moderately produced ; costal margin much curved near apex ; hind 

 margin in male either islightly excavated or sinuous, in female straight ; tails 

 short, broad at base ; the sexes alike in color and markingsj closely allied to 

 Brevicauda. 



Male. — Expands 3 inches. 



Upper side black ; primaries have a submarginal series of small yellow spots, 

 largest anteriorly and regularly dimini.shing in size to inner angle ; secondaries 

 have a similar series of six spots, mostly lunate, the one at outer angle some- 

 times obsolete ; a common yellow band cros.ses the disks, on primaries composed 

 of eight spots, the upper six triangular, the seventh sub-quadrate, the eighth a 

 narrow bar on inner margin ; the first of these spots has a circular incision on 

 the costal side, perhaps cutting quite across ; on the upper subcostal interspace 

 is a rounded spot ; on the inner side of the arc of cell a narrow bar or sti'ipe, 

 and a small patch within the cell ; on secondaries the band is nearly straight 

 on its inner side, or a little excavated, and consists of eight spots, the yel- 

 low extremity of the cell counting as one ; beyond are clusters of blue scales ; 

 above the incision at inner angle is an orange-fulvous ring, edged on the side 

 of the incision by yellow, surmounted by a blue crescent, and inclosing a 

 rounded black spot ; fringes of primaries black, of secondaries black, in the 

 emargiuations yellow. 



Under side paler black, the spots repeated, paler colored, the submarginal spots 

 enlarged ; those at the angles on secondaries more or less covered with orange ; 

 also the spots on lower discoidal and upper median interspaces are tipped with 

 orange ; the black area between the spots and band, on primaries, immaculate, 

 but on secondaries this area is dusted with blue or purple scales, and the middle 

 of each interspace is of a deeper shade of black than elsewhere. 



Body black ; the wing covers deep yellow ; the abdomen white without yel- 



