PAPILIONIDJE.-PAPILIONINiE. 



PAPILIO. YIIL 



XIV.— PAPILIO LAAECHUS. $ . Figs. 1, 2. 



TapUio Lacurhus, CTodman and Salviu, " Aimals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," ser. 6, vol. 1, p. 214 (March, 1888). 



Exp. 6f to 6 inches. 



Male. Upperside. Wings black, subdentate, incisions white. Anterior wings 

 with a row of five white spots running obliquely at two-thirds of the length of 

 the wing from below the third subcostal nervule to the second discoidal nervule, 

 the first trapezoidal, the second conical, the third forming a long oval, broken 

 on the outer side, and the fourth and fifth linear ; towards the outer half of the 

 inner margin a few scattered scales of the same colour. Posterior wings sub- 

 caudate, the middle third occupied by a broad white band, wider than in I'apilio 

 Arid, ceasing at each end just before reaching the costa and inner margin ; 

 bounded towards the base just within the cell, and scalloped outside between 

 the nervures ; below it, above the anal angle, is a thick orange lunule, slightly 

 paler towards the edges. 



Underside black; the incisions more distinctly spotted with white. 

 Anterior wings with the five white spots larger than above, and an isolated spot 

 of white dusting above the submedian nervure at three-fourths of its length. 

 Posterior wings with the pale band of the upper side reduced to a very few 

 scattered bluish-white scales, the only conspicuous one being just before the 

 orange spot towards the anal angle. This spot is much larger than above, and 

 mitre-shaped. Between the second discocellular nervule and the median nervules 

 are three more irregularly luuular, sul)marginal orange spots, that nearest the 

 anal angle largest, and the middle one the smallest. Orbits, two spots on the 

 occiput, four on the back and sides of the prothorax, and more or less of the 

 front of the tibia3 white ; pectus with greyish markings. 



Female. Upperside, resembles the male, but is of a browner black. On the 

 anterior wings the oblique row of white spots is less marked, and on the 



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