1242 THE BUTTERFLIES OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Gent, ii, Prince. B, Dom. c, figs. 1, 2 (180C). Eg. Tco/. astinoiiS Drury, 111. nat. hist., i: 



Laertias philenor Hiibn., Verz. schmett., 21, pi. 11, figs. 1, i (1770). 



84 (1815) ;— Scudd., Syst. rev. Ainer. butt., 43 J'apilio ustinons Cram., Pap. exot , iii : 26- 



(1872); Geol. N. H.. i": 359, pi. A, fig. 15. 17 27. pi. 208, figs. A, 15 (17S2). 



(1874). Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 



Piichliopta philenor Reak., Proc. entoni. I), fig. 18 (2 ligs); pi. 26, fig. 1; pi. 108, fig. 23; 



soc. Philad., iii ; 504 (1865). pi. 117, fig. 17 (2 figs.), incd. 



Voyez CO papillou ^ehappO dii tuiiilicau, 

 Sa mort fut un sommcil, el sa toiiilic un berceau ; 

 II brise le fourreau qui I'euihalndit dans I'onibre; 

 Deu.K yeux parioent son front, et ses yeux soiit sans nonibre ; 

 II se trainoitil peine, il part comme"l'6clair; 

 II ranipoit sur la terre, il voltige dans I'air.' 



Delille.— ies Trois Regnes. 

 With radiance caught for the occasion, — hues 

 Of blackest hell now, now such reds and blues 

 As only heaven could fitly interfuse. 



Browning.— Z'j'tfmaJis Personae. 



Imago (16: 3). Head black; a minute pale yellow spot at the posterior base of 

 each antenna; a narrow streak of the same, bordering the middle of the posterior 

 edge of the eye and half Its length ; a few similar inconspicuous scales bordering the 

 eye beneath ; down the whole front, below each antenna, a row of pale yellow 

 hairs intermingled with and so obscured by black hairs, either dividing the front in 

 equal stripes of black and colored hairs ( ? ) , or forming a slender line {$). Antennae 

 velvety blackish brown througliout. Palpi black, touched with a few pale yellow 

 hairs in front. Tongue piceous, fusco-testaceous at tip. 



Thorax covered above with blackish hairs, the patagia sometimes lined on either 

 side with a few paler hairs ; prothoracic lobes tipped each with a minute yellow spot, 

 directly posterior to those on the head ; behind these are two more, on the front of the 

 mesothorax, and one at the base of the patagia placed In a transverse row with them, 

 all at equal distances apart ; beneath blackish with a small roundish yellow spot next 

 the anterior base of each wing. Coxae covered with luteous black scales ; anterior 

 pair with a yellow streak occupying the posterior half of tlie basal half of the outer 

 surface; a triangular spot of the same color occupies the middle of the basal half of 

 the outer surface of the middle pair, and a large p.atch, l)ecoming slenderer apically, 

 the middle of the outer surface of the posterior pair; tibiae and tarsi blackish brown, 

 the sides of the tips of the tarsal joints dark castaneous ; spines black ; spurs and claws 

 mingled dark reddish and black. 



Wings above. Fore wings lustrous blackish brown, the apex, beyond the cell, espe- 

 cially in the female, not quite so dark, the male sometimes with a faint violaceous or 

 coppery green reflection; a subraarginal series of small, pale yellow spots, distinct, 

 faint or obsolete, distant from the outer border by the width of an interspace, situated 

 one between each of the median interspaces, and two in the medio-submedian inter- 

 space ; occasionally faint spots are also seen in the lower subcostal interspaces ; fringe 

 of the color of the wing, interrupted between most of the nervure tips with straw 

 yellow, occupying, below the apex, about half of the space, and infringing very slightly 

 upon the wing itself. Hind wings blackish with changeable reflections, either from very 

 dark mulberry green to a bluish green ( $ ) ; or, from very brilliant metallic olive 

 green to bright metallic blue {$); a row of broad, large, pale pearl gray lunules, 

 sometimes .altered to transverse streaks or roundish spots, one at about the middle of 

 the outer half of every subcostal and median interspace, subparallel to the outer border; 

 fringe as on the fore wings and the tiiil fringed only with l)lackish. 



Beneath: Fore wings blackish at base, gradually merging into the faded slate brown 

 of the apical h.alf, the veins darker; submarginal spots as on the upper surface, but 

 much larger ; a minute yellowish spot at the extreme base of the costal and median 

 nervures; fringe as on the upper surface, but the yellow occasionally infringing to a 

 greater extent upon the wing itself . ifind winjrs at base faded slate brown (with in- 



