THE SUBFiViMILY PAPILIONINAE. 1219 



SUBFAMILY TAPILIOXINAE. 



SWALLOW-TAILS. 



Equitcs Linn.; Equitides Herr.-Schaefl'. ; Dup.; Papilionidi Stcpli.; Papilioninae 



Equitiua Herr.-Schacft". Bates. 



Archontes Hiibner. Nobilia Gravenhoist. 



Papilionae Swains.; Papilionidos Hoisd.; Tentaculatac Giien6e. 



Papillonites Blanch.-BrulI6 ; Papilionidae 



La pauvre fleur disait au papillou celeste : 



"Ne fuis pas! 

 Vois comme nos destiiis sont difiSrents. Je reste, 

 Tu t'en vas ! 

 "Pourtaut nous nous aimons, nous vivons sans les hommes 

 Et loind'eux, 

 Et nous nous ressemblons, et I'on dit que nous somnies 

 Fleur-s tons deux I 

 "Mais h^las ! I'air t'eniporte et la terre m'enclialne. 

 Sort cruel ! 

 Je voudrais emliaunier ton vol de mon Laleine 

 Dans le del ! 

 "Mais uon, tu vas trop loin ! Parrai des fleurs sans noinbre 

 Vous fuyez, 

 Et moi je reste seule sY voir touruer mon ombre 

 A mes pieds I 

 "Tu fuis, puis tu reviens, puis tu t'en vas encore 

 Luire ailleurs. 

 Aussi me trouves-tu toujours A chaque aurore 

 Toute en pleurs ! 

 "Oh! pour que notrc amour coule des jours fiddles, 

 O mon roi, 

 Prends comme moi racine. ou donne moi de.s ailes 

 Comma 4 toi !" 



Victor Hugo.— ia Pauvre Fleur. 



Imago. Butterflies of large size. Head large. Front a little tumid, usually most 

 so below; occiput with a broad, tumid, transverse, curving ridge; antennae rather 

 stout, naked, more or less sinuous vertically, as long as or a little longer than the abdo- 

 men, consisting of from thirty-four to forty-four joints, the club distinct, usually con- 

 siderably arcuate, compressed, its increment added to the inner side only, occupying 

 from one-fourth to one-sixth of the whole antenna. Palpi minute, reaching only the 

 middle of the front of the eye, the clothing compressed in a vertical plane. 



Prothoracic lobes lamellate. Thorax rather stout, not compressed ; middle of front 

 of mcsoscutellum projecting far between the raesoscuta so as to be mostly included 

 bet\veen them, the lateral portions being but slender projections; metascutellum 

 thickened above, forming a small, quadrate mass between the metascuta but mostly 

 vertical; metascuta small but little tumid. 



Fore wings broad, usually subfalcate, the outer border nearly straight. Costal ner- 

 vure terminating not far from the middle of the outer half of the costal border ; sub- 

 costal nervure with four superior, simple branches of which two usually arise before 

 the tip of the cell and two beyond it, the third sometimes at it; in the outer half of 

 the wing the first three superior ncrvules all run parallel to, and at equal distances 

 from one another, crowded close to the costal margin and thus presenting an efl'ect 

 similar to what is seen in Hesperidae; discoidal cell broad, fully half the length of 

 the wing; median nervure with four branches, the flrst arising at about the middle of 



