

PAPILIO DAUNUS. Boisduval. 



Sjicc. Gen. I., p. 342, ii. 182. (18.36,) 



Hidings, Proc. Ent. Soc, Phil., I, p. 278. (1862.) 



(PLATE VI, FIG. 1 (J', 2 ?.) 



Male. Expands 3| to 5t inches. 



Antennae black, body yellow with a broad black dorsal, and narrow lateral and ventral 

 bands. 



Upper surface chrome yellow ; primaries with six transverse black bands, all of which, 

 with the exception of the marginal, are very narrow ; first is basal ; second extends from 

 costal to interior margin ; third from costa to first median veinlet; fourth along the disco- 

 cellular veins, from third sub-costal veinlet to second radial vein ; fifth terminates in some 

 scattered atoms at the second radial veinlet ; sixth, broad, extending along the whole of the 

 exterior margin ami divided transversely by a row of almost confluent yellow luniiles. 



Secondaries have the basal and second black bands of primaries continued to near the 

 anal spot, where they are united ; a broad marginal band, with six large crescents, the one 

 nearest the anal angle fulvous, the others yellow, more or less tinged M'itli fulvous ; anal spot, 

 which is also fulvous, is surmounted by a blue crescent, some patches of blue scales on the 

 border, interior to the sub-marginal lunuics ; four tails, the outer and innermost of which are 

 the shortest, that next llie outerinost is longest, and the remaining one is half tlic length of 

 this latter ; emarginations yellow. 



Under surface much jialer ; primaries marked as on uj)per surface, except that the sub- 

 marginal lunules are replaced by a broad yellow band. 



Secondaries have the sub-marginal lunules, which are, with the exception of the two 

 nearest the anal angle, larger than above, succeeded by yellowish grey atoms, edged interiorly 

 with shining blue, which is surmounted with black, adjoining which, between the abdominal 

 margin and second sub-costal veinlet, are five triangular rufous spots or flames ; discal arc 

 black ; second and third median veinlets edged with black scales. 



Female same as male, birt all the markings are much heavier, and, on upper surface, not 

 so intensely black as in the male. 



Habitat. Colorado, Kansas, Mexico, Ouataniala. 



The above description of this superb species applies more particularly to the tropical 

 form, found in Mexico and Central America ; the examples from Colorado present some few 

 points of difference in the male, in that the third and fourth transverse bands of primaries do 

 not extend beyond the median vein, and the fifth is almost obsolete ; on secondaries the lunulc 

 nearest the anal angle is the only one that is fulvous, and there are no red flames on the under 

 surface. 



Mr. Ridings, who, in 1804, took several of this species in the Rocky Mountains, says it 



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