1846 BUTTERFLIES BEYOND NEW ENGLAND. 



know nothing. Comparing it with another species of the genus, auso- 

 nides, Edwards says it is more delicate and less strong of wing, " and of 

 a low, uncertain and tremulous flight. In West Virginia it accompanies 

 genutia, and might easily be mistaken for the female of that species, fre- 

 quenting, with it, cultivated grounds, gardens and meadows." 



SUBFAMILY PAPILIONINAE. 



EUPHOEADES HUBNEE. 



EUPHOEADES PALAMEDES. 



Prqiilio palamedes Drury, 111. iiat. hist., i: schinett., S3 (ISIG). 



pi. 19, figs. 1, 2 (1773);— Cram., Pap. exot., Princeps /ie)-o(C!«s c/ia?c«s Hiibn., Samml. 



i: 146, pi. 03, figs. A, B (1779) ;— Edw., Can. exot. schmeU,, i (1S06-24). 



eut., xiii : 119-123 (1881) ;—Freuch, Butt. east. Papllio calchas Boisd.-LeC, L^p. Am6i'. 



U. S., 94-97 (1886). sept., 17-19, pi. 5 (1829-30);— Boisd., Spec. 



Papilio chnlcas Fabr., Syst. ent., 453-4.54 g^u. L6p., i: 337-338 (1836). 



(1775). Piipilio Havo-macnlatus Goeze, Eut. beytr., 



JEnp/ioeades chalcas Hiibii., Verz. bek. Hi: 87 (1779). 



Imago. Head and body blackish browu, marked with a moderately broad, pale yel- 

 low stripe which runs from the tip of the patagia forward iu a straight liue to the 

 inner edge of the eye, which it encircles, includes the palpi, and runs down the breast 

 to the base of the fore legs ; a similar yellow stripe follows down the middle and hind 

 coxae, and the abdomen is marked with a broad, mid-lateral, yellow band which termi- 

 nates on the clasps and occupies the middle of them ; besides which tliere is a similar 

 laterovcutral Ijand on the terminal two-tliirds of the abdomen, fading out anteriorly to 

 a thin line whicli runs angularly upward to the base of tlie hind coxae ; antennae red- 

 dish chocolate, paler above than below, but the club infuscated, especially above. 



Wings above blackish brown with a chocolate tinge, with a premarginal series of 

 roundish, pale yellow spots and an extra-mesial series of large yellow spots, indepen- 

 dent and generally triangular on the fore wings, more or less quadrangular and conflu- 

 ent on the hind wings. On the fore wings the spots of the submarginal series are 

 tolerably uniform in size, round, and about one-half an interspace in diameter, their 

 outer limits at an interspace's distance from the outer margin ; though sometimes 

 almost perfectly straight, the series is always sinuous to a slight degree, the spots in 

 the two lower median interspaces being removed a little outward ; the extra-mesial 

 row of spots in the same interspaces is more irregular, those in the subcostal inter- 

 spaces being as far remo\'ed from the submarginal spots as they from the margin, and 

 are short, triangular or the uppermost ipiadrangular, elongate ; the spots in the next 

 four interspaces seem to run in a line slightly obliciue to the general course of the 

 series, the uppermost one being removed inward slightly, and the outermost outward; 

 these are always larger, triangular, the apices inward, with the exception of that in the 

 subcosto-mediau interspace, which, at least in the males, is frequently as broad or 

 nearly as broad interiorly as exteriorly ; the spot in the mcdio-submediau interspace 

 is sublunulate, sometimes much broader than long, while that in the interspace below 

 is subtriangular and elongate, its apex outward ; there is besides, particularly in the 

 males, rarely or but faintly in the females, a transverse bar in the cell, traversing the 

 middle of its apical third, reaching neither limit, but more in the upper than in the 



