0+ Lloyds natural tiisTORV. 



The type of the genus is 



AXI0CERSE3 PERION. 



Papilio pe?'ion, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 379, figs. B, C 



(17S1). 



This is a red Butterfly, expanding an inch and a quarter 

 across the fore- wings, and with a rather long slender tail on 

 the hind-wings. In the fore-wings the costa and hind-margin 

 are broadly black, and there are two black bands across the 

 red part of the wing. The hind-wings are narrowly bordered 

 with black, and have a third short black band nearer the base 

 than the others. The under side is brown, with a sub-mar- 

 ginal row of small golden spots, and a similar sub-costal row 

 on the fore-wings. There are also three or four irregular rows 

 of larger transverse golden spots on all the wings. 



The locality given by Cramer is Surinam ; but the Butterfly 

 is probably a native of West Africa. 



B. Siih-costal nennire tisiiaUy four-hranchcdj^ 

 This section includes most of the typical Old-World 

 LyccEfiidcc. Most of the genera are tailed, and marked with 

 ocellated spots beneath. The section is sparingly represented 

 in North America by a few species belonging to, or allied to, 

 European genera ; and in Tropical America we meet with only 

 a very few species allied to Plehehis ; the Lyccciiidce (except 

 so far as regards species allied to TJiccIa) being almost entirely 

 replaced in Tropical America by the allied Family Le/noniidie. 



GENUS ZEPIIYRUS. 

 Ruralis, Barbut, Gen. Ins. p. 179(1781). 



Zephynis, Dalman, K. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. xxxvii. pp. 62, 

 yo (1816); Wallengren, Lepid. Skand. Rhop.p. 171 (1857); 

 De Niceville, Butterflies, Ind. iii. p. 299 (1S90) ; Schatz & 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 267 (1892). 

 * Vide supri), p. 48. 



