40 PAPILIONID.E. PAPILIONIN.E. PAPILIO. 



XXYIL— PAPILIO VIRGINIA. ? . Figs. 3, 4. 



PapiUo ]'injiiu(t, Kirby, "Transactions of the Entomological Society of 

 London," 1881, p. 362. 



Exp. Qh inches. 



Female. Upperside. Dark brown. Anterior wings with a suffused 

 yellowish-white band crossing the end of the cell, the lower angle of which 

 it touches, and then widening outwards towards the middle of the hind 

 margin, which, however, it does not reach. Posterior wings with white 

 incisions, and a row of seven white transverse spots ; of which the fourth, fifth, 

 and sixth are oval, and larger than the others, spot five being much the 

 largest; and spot seven, nearest to the anal angle, broad, and tinged below 

 with rose-colour. The third and fourth spots are also very slightly touched 

 with rose-colour below. 



Underside similar but paler, and spotted with red at the base. The spot 

 on the posterior wings nearest the anal angle is here divided into two, the first 

 of which is red and white, and the second red. 



Hal). Eastern Ecuador (Banks of the Copataza River, which flows into the 

 Pastaza River), (Buckley). 



In the Colleetiou of Mr. H. Grose-Smith. 



Another siJecimen, iu the Colleetiou of the Hon. W. Rothschild, comes from the River 

 Sabanitra, Ecuador, captured at an elevation of 3,500 feet (0. T. Baron). 

 Allied to P. Lacydes, Hewitson (vide stqrra). 



