4(i PAPILIU DAT NTS. 



is rare and dirtioiilt to capture, owing to its iiigli flight and tiic almost iuaccessiblc nature of its 

 haunts. 



Friend Sachs, of" New York, added another to the numberless favors already conferred bv 

 loaning me from his collection the original of the :i^ figures for the purpose of illustrating the 

 accompanying plate ; the ? is from one of a number which I received from Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



I'AriLlO ZOLICAOX. BoismvAi.. 



Ann. Soc. Kut. Fr., p. 281. (18.V2.^ 



P. Zeiicaon, Luca.«, Rev. Zool., p. 136. (1852.) 



I'. Machaon, var. Cull/omica, Menetries, Cat. Mu5. Petr. Lop. I, p. 09. (ISo-j.) 



(PLATE Vr, FIG. 3 $.) 



Mam; ani> Fkmai.k. Expands 3 to 3% inches. 



jVntenmv black : head and thorax black with two yellow lines ; abdomen black with a 

 lateral yellow band. 



I'pper surface rich yellow, pi-iniarics with a large black basal patch, between which and 

 the disco-cellular veins is a broad black band, extending from costa to median vein, another 

 covers the diseo-cellular veins and reaches to the fourth radial vein, beyond this, between the 

 costa and fourth sub-costal veinlet, is a black dash, immediately below this and joining it is a 

 round spot ; a black marginal band, containing a row of yellow spots, round near the outer 

 angle, and becoming lunate as they approach the inner, the one nearest to which is geminate; 

 nervures defined with black. 



Secondaries, abdominal margin black ; discal arc, as "well as the veins, black ; a very 

 broad black marginal baud : sub-marginal hniulcs yellow, above these, within the marginal 

 band, a row of shining blue crescents; anal eye large, red, etlged below with yellow and 

 piipilled with black ; tails .same as in P. Machaon and kindred species ; emarginations yellow. 



I'nder surface paler ; primaries marked much as above. Secondaries, interior to the 

 sub-marginal luuules, a band of greyish yellow edged with blue; adjoining the marginal 

 band the wing is tinged with fulvous. 



Habitat. California, Oregon, Vaucouv^er's Island. 



Although bearing a striking resemblance to P. Machaon, and particularly to its variety 

 Sphyrus'^', I believe this to be a distinct species, especially as the true P. ^lachaon is found in 

 the northern parts of our possessions and in British America ; but even this Mr. Scudder con- 

 siders distinct from the typical P. ilachaon, and has named it P. Aliaskat, but I do not think 

 on sufficient ground,*, as, after a rigid comparison, I do not find it to difler from the Eurojieau 

 types more than do exam.ples from the Himalayas, Cliina, Turkey, &c., which is very little, 

 indeed. 



*Hubner, Samml. Exot. Sclimett., f. 775, 776. (1818-1827. >. 

 tScudder, Ent. Xotes, II, p. 45. (1869.^ 



