PAPILIONID.E.-rAPILIONIN.E. 



PAriLIO. XYI. 



XXYI.— PAPILIO LACYDES. $. Figs. 1, 2. 



rapilio Luajdes, Hcwitson, " E(|uatorial Lepidopterca, collected by Mr. 

 Buckley," I., p. 1, No. 1 (18(')9). Kirby, " Transactions of the Entomological 

 Society of London," 1881, p. 351. 



Papilid Erithidion, ab. (?) Eqiiestris, Obertlmr, "Etudes d'Entomologie," 

 IV., p. 88, pi. 5, fig. 2 (1880). 



Exp. 3J-4 inches. 



3fah'. Upperside. Velvety-black. Anterior wings with a large dull 

 green spot on the inner margin, of a long narrow pear-shape, the thin end 

 directed towards the base. Posterior wings with white incisions, and witli 

 three scarlet spots shot with violet, not close to tlie anal angle ; the outer- 

 most is round, and the others larger, and oval. 



Underside black ; base spotted with red, and a red belt near the extremity 

 of the abdomen. Posterior wings with five spots, the two outermost pale 

 pink, and slightly oval, the third of the same colour, but smaller ; the two 

 nearest the anal angle white, and smaller than the others. 



Female. UppERSiDE dark brown, the outer margins marked by white 

 lunular spots. Anterior wings crossed obliquely a little beyond the middle 

 by a broad oblique band of white, divided by the uervures into eight parts. 

 Posterior wings crossed towards the outer margin by a curved band of white, 

 divided by the uervures into six spots, two of which nearest to the apex are 

 isolated. 



Underside precisely as above. 



Hab. Ecuador (St. Ines, Sarayacu and Chiquinda), Buckley ; Quito (/(n//; 

 Oberthiir). 



In the Collections of Mr. H. Grose-Smitb and others. 



Allied to P. Erithalion, Boisduval, and P. Cyjihofes, Gray. 



The female insect described by Hewitson, and tigured by Oberthiir, is the type of this 

 species, -which appears to be generally common in Ecuador. Hewitsou's typical specimens came 

 from St. Ines. 



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