PAPILIO II. 



PAPILIO PILUMNUS, 1-4. 



PaplUo Pilumnus, Boisduval, Spec. Gen., I, p. 340. 1836; MeiidtriiSs, Cat. Miis. Petr., II, p. 110, pi. 7, 

 fig. 2. 1857 ; Meail, Report on Diur. Lep. of Wheeler Expedns,, p. 741. 1875 ; Strecker, Lep., p. V.\, 

 pi. 2, figs. .3, 4,5. 1873. 



Size and general form of Dannies ; secondaries with three tails. 



Male. — Expands from 3.8 to 4.25 inches. 



Upper side either bright yellow or dark yellow, banded with black much after 

 the pattern of Dawius, but there is one band less on primaries ; the bands, ex- 

 cept the marginal, are also much heavier ; costa of primaries black, the space 

 between the nerves mostly yellow ; a narrow band covers the bases of wings and 

 the inner margin of secondaries, widening gradually from the median nervure, 

 and ending squarely a little above the marginal band ; a second proceeds from 

 costa against the middle of the cell, is broad at first, tapers very gradually on 

 primaries, rapidly on secondaries, and ends evenly with the inner band, the two 

 being connected by a narrow stripe ; the third lies on arc of cell, and has a more 

 or less macular extension to the lower median nervulc ; the fourth is short, and 

 lies across the subcostal nervules to the discoidal ; hind margins bordered by 

 a broad band as in Daumis, within which, on primaries, is a narrow stripe of 

 yellow, divided into spots by the nervules, and near the inner edge a macular line 

 of yellow scales ; on secondaries are five lunate submarginal yellow spots, the 

 two posterior ones washed with red-brown ; above the angle the margin is ex- 

 cised and edged with red-brown ; above this, and also in the next interspace, is a 

 cluster of metallic blue scales, under which, in the outer interspace, are separated 

 scales both blue and yellow ; in the second median interspace is a large loose 

 cluster of yellow, with a few blue at top, and some individuals have small clus- 

 ters of blue to the costal margin ; some also have a yellow streak or small spot 

 in the uppermost interspace in this same line ; the exterior tail is long and 

 narrow, the tip pointed, somewhat convex on the outer side, edged yellow on 

 that side near tip and on all the inner side, the yellow more or less washed red- 



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