ORDER IV. MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES. 209 



Priam's son, Troilus, who was killed by Anchyses during 

 the Trojan war. This butterfly has black, denticulated 

 wings, spotted with yellow dots, and terminated by a swal- 

 low-tail. Its caterpillar is green, with a yellow stripe on 

 each side, and a row of blue dots ; while the under side of 

 its body and its feet are of a reddish color. It lives upon 

 the sassafras and.spice-wood trees (Laurus sassafras and Lau- 

 rus benzoin), and upon several other species of the cinnamon 

 tribe, and is more frequently seen in the Southern than the 

 Northern States, but is very abundant in the Antilles. 

 The PiiiLEXOR {Pajnlio Philcnor), Fig. 54, is much small- 



Figure 54. 



The Ph lienor. 



er than the former, but like it has black, swallow-tail 

 wings, the black, however, shading into brown and greeu^^ 

 Its caterpillar is brown, with two ifReral rows of small, 

 reddish protuberances with bristles. It lives on the birth- 

 wort (Aristolochia serpentan'a), and is usually found in the 

 Southern States. 



The Ajax {Papilio Ajax) was so named by Linnajus, 

 after one of the bravest of the Greek chieftains in the Tro- 



