PAPILIO XII., XIII. 



PAPILIO RUTULUS. 1-4. 



Papilio Riilttlu.^, l?oisiluv;il, Ann. Soc. Enr. ile Fran<-i>, ■2""' sor.. v. X., p. 279, 1S52. 

 Var. AuizoNExsis, Eilwanls, Paiiilio, v. HI., ]>. 4, 18s:j. 



Male. — Expands from 3.0 to 4.25 inches. 



Upper side yellow, banded with black ; costa of primaries bJack, more or less 

 dusted throughout, and next base densely, with yellow ; a narrow Ijand cro.sses 

 the bases of wino's and follows the abdominal maro-in, bends inwai'd at an obtuse 

 angle and joins the extremity of the second band ; this last cros.ses l)oth wings, is 

 broad on primaries, but narrows gradually as it api)roaches the inner margin. 

 and on secondaries is reduced to a slender, tapering stripe; the third band 

 crosses outer part of cell of primaries, is Ijroail, usually- curved, and is continued 

 b}- an irregular patch to lower branch of median nervure, with spurs along the 

 upper branches; the fourth band lies on the arc of cell; the fifth is made up of 

 a rounded spot in sub-costal interspace, and a patch which reaches the discoidal 

 nervule ; the marginal border is broad, even-edged within, and through it, on 

 prunaries, runs a series of small yellow spots, which form a tapering band, the 

 anterior spots oval or lunate, the others straight, and often mere streaks; on the 

 basal side of these, on the Ijlack ground, is a stripe of yellow scales; on seconda- 

 ries, the border widens posteriorly, and in the median interspaces is densely 

 dusted with yellow on the inner side ; along the margin arc four yellow spots, the 

 posterior one lunular, the remainder narrow bars, curved or straight ; sometimes 

 a fifth spot appears at outer angle, but is always small, a streak, or cluster of 

 scales ; next inner angle a small deep fulvous lunule, or a streak, often wanting ; 

 the incision at this angle edged fulvous ; through the border runs a series of 

 loose clusters of blue scales, often wanting on anterior half of wing, but more 

 compact on lower median interspace, there forming a large rounded patch ; next 

 inner margin a blue crescent; primaries usuallj' have the sub-costal and discoidal 

 nervules edged black ; the arc of cell on secondaries often covered by a black 

 bar; tail long, narrow, bent, convex outwardly, somewhat spatulate on inner 

 side, but often so little as to be scarcely perceptible ; fringes of primaries black, 



