PAPILIO ASTERIOIDES. Reak.rt. 



Proo. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. 331, n. 27. (ISGG) 



(PLATE VI, FIG. 4 ? .) 



Male. Expands 3^ inclics. 



Head and body black; patagi;L' yellow; abdomen with dorsal and lateral rows of yellow 

 spots like Asterius. 



Upper surface black ; primaries, a sub-marginal row of eight yellow spots, the one nearest 

 the inner angle is oblong and sometimes connected at lower end witii the yellow emargination, 

 the others arc round, or nearly so ; an inner regular band of eight triangular yellow spots, the 

 one between the first median nervule and sub-median nervurc is broadest, the next below it is 

 the narrowest, the rest are pretty much of one size ; further in, near the costa, is a small round 

 yellow spot. 



Secondaries, six vellow sub-marginal hinules ; a yellow mesial band, divided by the veins 

 into seven parts, between this and the sub-marginal lunules are clusters of shining blue atoms, 

 the narrowest and bris-htest of which surmounts the anal eve, which is oranu^e, margined below 

 with yellow and pupilled with black : cniarginations yellow. 



Under surface brown, ornamentation same as above, with the addition of a small discal 

 bar on primaries, but the sub-marginal spots and lunules are paler, and the triangular spots 

 composing inner band of primaries, with the exception of the one nearest the costa, are fulvous ; 

 those of mesial baud of secondaries also fulvous, of a richer shade and margined interiorly with 

 yellow ; the sub-marginal lunules, except the two nearest the anal angle, tinged with fulvous 

 on the inner side, between these and the mesial band is a row of irregular crescents, composed 

 of yellowish and blue scales, after the manner of Asterius and allied species ; anal eye as 

 above ; tails like Asterius. 



Female same expanse and color as male ; all tlic wings broader ; inner baud of primaries 

 a little broader and of same width throughout; pupil of anal ocellus small. 



Mr. Eeakirt's type (d ) has the spots forming the inner band of primaries nmch suffused 

 with black, the suffusion increasing as they near the costa, where the last few become obsolete, 

 or almost so ; there is also a variation in the anal spot, the pupil of which, instead of being a 

 round spot in the centre, extends across its whole breadth, cutting it into two parts, the upper 

 of which is red, the lower yellow ; this, I am eon\incod, however, has no specific value, as I 

 have met with the same peculiarity in Asterius. This type in the Museum of the Am. Ent. 

 Soc, Phil., is from Mexico ; the cT and ? in my collection are from Costa Rica. 



I received in the sending, along with it, examples of Sadalus taken at the same time, in 

 the same locality. 



This section of the genus Papilio bids fair to become involved in almost as hopeless a 

 state of confusion as that at present enjoyed the by Coliades. 



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