PAPILIONID^.-PAPILIONIN.E. 



PAPILIO. xiy. 



XXIIL— PAPILIO MERCUTIUS. i . Figs. 1, 2. 



Exp. 3i inches. 



Male. Upperside pale cupreous-brown, with creamy-white markings, 

 tinged witli yellowish-green on the anterior wings. Anterior wings with a pale 

 band at the base, and two very broad ones tilling most of the cell, the first 

 enclosing a short black streak, and with a narrower pale band running from below 

 its basal end to the inner margin ; the second band in the cell is concave on 

 both sides. Beyond the cell runs a curving row of large pale spots, of which the 

 fourth from the costa is the smallest ; and a nearly straight oblique row of 

 smaller submarginal spots. Posterior wings with a pale l)asal and inner 

 marginal band, two pale bands in the cell, continued below by two long sjtots 

 and a short one, and a submarginal row of pale spots ; towards the anal angle 

 is a large pale blotch, marked in the middle with l)lack, and inside above with 

 red ; within this is a second oldong red sjjot. Incisions yellow al)0ve, and 

 creamy-white below. Tails long, slender, black, bordered with creamy-white. 



Underside similar, but posterior wings more inclining to olive ; a red s})ot 

 above the cell ; two oblong red spots of equal size towards the anal angle, 

 bordered below with black. 



Body blackish above, orbits, midersurface of head, a broad stripe on 

 each side of the prothorax, the abdomen beneath, and stripes on the sides, 

 creamy-white ; red spots on the vertex, towards the base of the wings beneath, 

 and on the sides of the base of the abdomen beneath. 



Hab. Morakwen, Dclagoa Bay (Eev. H. Junod). 



Nea.rest to P. Antheus, Cram. 

 In the Collection of Mr. H. Grose Smith. 

 Taken November 10, 1892. 



We have been obliged to change the name of this species, as we find that Mr. W. H. Edwards 

 has already described a Papilio Hollandi from Colorado. 



VOL. II., APRIL, 1894. G a 



