PAPILIONINAE : PAPILIO POLYXENES. 



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PAPILIO POLYXENES— The black swaUow-tail. 



[The black swallow-tail (Gosse); star-dotted papilion (Emmons); parsley butterfly (Em- 

 mons); Astcrias butterfly (Harris); black swallow-tiiil butterfly (Mayuard).] 



Papilio polyxenes Fabr., Syst. entom., 

 444-445 (1775); — Jabl., Natursyst. ins. 

 schmett., ii : 253-260, pi. IS, li;;. 1 (1784);— 

 Abb.. Draw. ins. Ga. Brit. Mus., vi:6, U^s. 

 12, 13; xvi: 19, pi. 76 (oa. 1800);— Guudl., Eut. 

 Cub., i: 136-138 (1881);— Auriv., Lep. Mus. 

 Lud. Ulr., 178 (1882). 



Amaryssiis polyxenes Soudd., Syst. rev. 

 Amer. butt., 45 (1S72). 



Frinceps polyxenes .SeudiV., Butt., 304, 

 fiss. 31,32, 190(1881). 



E'l'ies trojanus troilus Drury, 111. nat. 

 hist., i: 22-23, pi. 11, li,!;s.3, 5 (1770). 



Fiipilio troilus (pars) Cram., Pap. exot., 

 iii: 25-26, 176, pi. 207, fig. A (1782) ;— Jabl., 

 Natursyst. ins. sohmett., ii: 242-2.52, pi. 17, 

 figs. 3-4 (1784) ;— Smith-Abb., Lep. ins. Ga., 

 i:2, pi. 1 (1797);- Bull., Cat. Fabr. Lep., 249- 

 250 (1869). 



Papilio asterius Cram., Pap. exot, iv: 

 194-196. pi. 385, figs. C. D (1782) ;— Esp., Ausl. 

 schmett.,i: 47-49, 248-249, pi. 11, figs. 1-2, pi. 

 40 b, fig. 6 (1801) ;— Poey, Mem. Soc. ecou. 

 H.ab., (2) ii: 235 (1846);— M6n6tr.. Catal. coll. 

 entom. Acad., ii : 99-100 (1857); — Streck., 

 Cat, Amer. Macrolep., 71-72 (1878);— Guudl., 

 Zcitschr. ges.naturw., Iii: 158 (1879). 



Euphoeades asterius Hiibn., Verz. 

 schmett., 83 (1816). 



Papilio asterias Fabr., Mant. ins., ii : 2 



(1787);— Boisd.-LeC, L6p. am(!r. sept., 14-16, 

 pi. 4, figs. 1-4 (1833);— Boisd., Spec. g6n. Lep., 

 1:332-334 (1836); — Westw., Drury Exot. 

 entom., i : 21-22, pi. 11, figs. 2, 3, 5 (1837);- 

 Lucas, L6p. exot., 38-39, pi. 20, fig. sup. (1845); 

 — D'Urb., Can. nat. geol., ii ; 220-223, figs, a, b, 

 pi. 3, fig. 2-3 (18.57);— Harr., Ins. inj. veg., 3d 

 ed., 263-266, pi. 4, figs. 4-7 ( 1862) ; Entom. 

 corresp., 270-271 (1869);— Morr., Syn. Lep. N. 

 Amer., 5, 6 (1862) ;— Lintn., Proc. entom. soc. 

 Pbilad., iii: 51 (1864);— Feld., Spec. Lep. hue. 

 descr., 27-75 (1804);— H. Edw., Pac. coast 

 Lep., 10(ii:4) (1873) ;— Pagenst., Verh. uat.- 

 med. ver. Heidelb., n. f., i: 87-89 (1874);— 

 Saund., Rep. eut. soc. Out., 1876:37-38, fig. 8 

 (1877); — Dewitz, Arch, uaturg., xliv, i:4, pi. 

 1, figs. 2-4 (1878);— French, Rep. ius. 111., vii: 

 137-138 (1878) ; Butt. east. U. S., 89-93, figs. 

 14-16 (1886);- Middl., Rep. ins. III., x:74 

 (1881) ;-Coq., ibid., 173 (1881) ;— Edw., Pap., 

 iii: pi. 1, figs. 1-3 (1883) ;— Fern., Butt. Me., 23- 

 24 (1884); — Grub., Jen. zeitschr. naturw., 

 xvii: 467-468, pi. 7, figs. 1-5(1884); Pap., iv: 

 84-85, pi. 1, figs. 1-5 (1884);- Tepp., Ent. 

 amer., 1:186-187 (1886);- Mayu., Butt. N. E., 

 51, pi. 6, figs. 71, 71 a (1886). 



Papilio nigrescens etc. Pet., Gazoph., i:4, 

 pi. 6, fig. 12(1709). 



Figured also by Glover, 111. N. A. Lep., pi. 

 1, fig. 1 (5 figs.), pi. 26, figs. 5, 8 (ined.). 



Report is that dame Venus on a day, 



In spring when flowres doo clothe" the fruitfull ground. 



Walking abroad with all her nymphes to pl.iy. 



Bad her faire damzels flocking her arownd 



To gather flowers, her forhead to array : 



Emougst the rest a geutle Nymph was found, 



Hight Astery, excelling all the crewe 



In courteous usage and unstaiued hewe. 



Who beeing nimbler jointed than the rest, 



And more UKlustrious, gathered more store 



Of the fields honour, than the others best. 



8vESS^vt..—Muiopotmos. 



. . . clothing all the crumbling wall of stone. 



The wild j^rapes show their purple globes of wine , 

 The butternies hold carnival alone. 

 And brilliantly their iris colors shine, 

 In harvest time. 



CoLLiEK. — In Harvest Time. 



Imago (8 : 2, 3). Head covered with not very loua:, black hairs and a little shorter, 

 yellowish brown, inconspicuous scales; at the back of the head, behind and outside of 

 the antennae there is a small, triangular yellow spot, specked with black, and occa- 

 sionally a few yellow scales at the summit of the eye; the eyes are edged narrowly 

 behind, nearly to their summit, with pale yellowish, which is generally inconspicuous 

 and often wanting. Antennae blackish brown above, the tips of the joints paler, 

 blackish mahogany brown below, specked with exceedingly short, fine hairs, the club 



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