PARIDES. 271 



TTedorides ascantuSy Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. ii. pi. 

 105 (1824). 



This is a Brazilian Butterfly^ measuring four inches across 

 the wings, which are black, crossed by a broad white band, 

 shading into red on the outside on the hind-wings, which are 

 also marked with a row of sub-marginal red lunules ; the 

 incisions are white. The pectus, and under side of the abdomen 

 are spotted with red. 



[vii.] Fiuides, Hiibner. A tropical American group, much 

 resembling Endopogon (q.v.), but with pink instead of white 

 incisions. 



We have figured a representative species. 



PARIDES iENEAS. 

 {Plate LXVL Fig 2.) 

 PafUio cdueas, Linn. Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 461, no. 15 

 (1758); id. Mus. Ulr. p. 197 (1754) ; Cramer, Pap Exot. 

 iii. pi. 279, figs. C, D (1780); Godart, Enc. Meth. ix. 

 p. ^T,, no. 24 (1819); Boisduval, Spec. Gen. Lepid. i. p. 

 286 (1836). 

 Papilio {BHeides, $, Esper, Ausland. Schmett. pi. 15, fig. 4 



(1785?). 

 ? Prbiceps domina7is maj'cms^ Hiibner, Samml. Exot. Schmett. 



i. pi. 122 (1816 ?). 

 Papilio uiarcms, Boisduval, /. c. p. 286 (1836). 



This Butterfly is common in Guiana and on the Lower 

 Amazons, and measures over three inches across the wings. The 

 fore-wings are rather pointed, with the hind-margin very 

 oblique ; and the hind-wings are rounded and dentated. The 

 colour is black, with a nearly square green spot on the inner- 

 margin of the fore-wings, and with three white spots obliquely 

 above and beyond it. The hind-wings are red from the base 

 to beyond the middle, and the incisions are also red. On the 

 under-side, the hind-wings are marked with five red spots, and 



