PAPILIONID.E.-PAPIL[ONIN.E. 



PAPILIO. IX. 



XV.— PAPILIO PEOSPEEO. s . Fig. 1. ? . Fig. -2. 



riipilio Frospcro, Henley Cxrose Smith, " Entomologist's Monthly Maj^M- 

 zine," vol. 25, p. 302 (June, 1880). 



Exp. $ 5^, $ G inches. 



"Male. Upperside. Both wings black. Anterior wings with an obliqne. 

 straight (not curved) subapical row of four milky-white spots, the first below the 

 third subcostal nervnle quadrangular, the second smaller, triangular, the third 

 and fourth larger and more elongated, indented outwardly, the fourth sharply 

 so ; a short, narrow white line on the first subcostal nervule, nearer the base 

 than the first spot ; a large milky- white patch, indented outwardly, towards the 

 posterior angle between the lowest median nervule and the submedian nervure. 

 Posterior wings with a broad milky-white band, as in 1'. Ihcatam, Godm. and 

 Salv., l)ut more deeply and sharply serrated outwardly than in that species. 



Underside. Anterior wings as al)ove, l>ut without the spot between the 

 lowest median nervule and the submedian nervure. Posterior wings with three 

 submarginal quadrate, ferruginous spots between the discoidal and median lur- 

 vules, and an indication of another near the apex, a larger and brighter ferru- 

 ginous spot above the anal angle, inside which, rather nearer the middle, between 

 the discoidal and median nervules, are three patches of bluish-white scales. 



"■Female. Upperside resembles the female of i'. /f-'cof^pz/.s, but differs as 

 under : Anterior wings : the patch in the cell and the discoidal row of si)ots arc 

 whiter, smaller, and less distinct, and the marginal spots l)etween the veins are very 

 much larger, whiter, and quadrate. Posterior wings : the central band of si)ots 

 is much smaller, whiter, and indistinct, and extends only over the end of the 

 cell, instead of over the outer two-thirds of it ; the white patch on the abdominal 

 fold is almost obsolete ; the spots of the submarginal row are nearly double the 

 size, white outwardly, shading into ferruginous inwardly ; the white spot at the 



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