PAPILIOMNAE: IPHICLIUES AJAX. 1267 



clered with pale bluish scales, giving a grayish blue effect, in a limited field, the exterior 

 border of >Yliicli follows a bent curve, runniiis from the exterior edge of the outer 

 pale band to the middle of the lower median nervule and thence at right angles toward 

 the inner border, to meet which more directly it curves wlien it has reached the middle 

 of tlie submedio-internal interspace ; the interior limit of the powdery space is nearly 

 marked by the extremity of the cell, though it extends along the edges of the pale bauds 

 nearly or quite to their midtlle. Separated but slightly from this powdery space in the 

 medio-submedian interspace, and from tlie excavation of the inuer border by its own 

 width is a bright carmine broad lunule, generally extending tlie whole width of the 

 interspace, broader next the inner border tlian upon the opposite side, occasionally 

 margined above very slightly with a whitish decking, and sometimes accompanied by 

 a few clustered carmine scales in the lower median interspace, which occasionally 

 become enlarged into a spot, which at its greatest becomes half as large as the primary 

 spot, with its interior edge on a line with the exterior edge of the major spot. There 

 is a submarginal series of large and distinct whitish lunules in all the interspaces 

 above the tail, on the side next the costal margin broadest, and having their middle on 

 a line with the previous part of the outer margin, the upper one slender and powdery, 

 the lower subtriangular. In corresponding places in the two lower median interspaces, 

 but a little further from the margin, Umulate powdery spots of rather pale blue, the 

 inner the larger and surmounted by a second powdery lunule of gi-eenish yellow scales, 

 which is but the [jrolongation of a pale yellow spot which edges rather broadly the 

 excavation of the inner border; the tail is broadly bordered with lioary white scales, 

 so broadly as to unite and cover the whole of the terminal portion (sometimes the ter- 

 minal fourth) and which gradually narrows until it unites as a mere line with the yel- 

 lowish edging of the crenations of the inner border ; yet the whole tail has a black 

 fringe, excepting the extreme tip; the hollows of the crenations of the outer border 

 are narrowly edged with pale yellow, a color common to the fringe at these points, 

 though at the nervure tips it is broadly interrupted with black. 



Beneath ; /ore toui^s with the ground color dull brown, the markings of the upper 

 surface repeated, with the following exceptions and additions : the slender basal pale 

 stripe reaches to the extreme base of the wing, and crosses the costal nervure to the 

 mai'gin, like the other bands; the other bands are more clearly defined, even the dark 

 patch dividing the central pale band scarcely showing any signs of a powdery edge ; 

 separated from and nearly parallel to the interior edge of the submarginal stripe, and 

 just touching the tips of the two previous shorter stripes is a slender, somewhat 

 irregular and unequal pale striga, extending from the costal margin to the lowest 

 median nervule, presenting the appearance of a rubbed line, as if the scales had been 

 removed. Hindinngs with the ground color scarcely so dark as above, especially in the 

 upper half of the wing, with markings similar to those of the upper surface but with 

 some conspicuous additions : the narrow basal pale stripe is distinct and equal and 

 reaches nearly to the carmine spot ; the middle pale band is similar to that of the 

 under surface, but is less obscured by the powdering near the tip ; the same is true of 

 the outer band, which rarely fails also of reaching the median nervules ; the black 

 band formed between these two, however, is enlivened by a series of narrow, equal, 

 transverse, gently curved, subcoutinuous, carmine stripes, crossing the middle of the 

 band in the upper half of the wing, extending from the costal edge to the next to the 

 lower median nervule, and excepting the uppermost, bordered interiorly by a similar 

 pure white stripe, which is as broad as the carmine in all but the median interspaces; 

 the spots above the lower subcostal nervure usually form one continuous series, and 

 those below another, but the latter are often disconnected ; between the subcostal 

 and median nervures, the white stripe borders the outer limit of the cell and is thus 

 wholly in the outer half of the dark band, and the interior limit of the carmine patch 

 of the middle median interspace is on a line usually with tlie exterior edge of the 

 similar spot in the interspace above; the carmine spots of the upper surface are re- 

 peated, that of the lowest median interspace as distinct and nearly as large as the 

 other, forming an inverted lunule, and both are brofidly edged interiorly with pure 



