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 (Zaurus 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 PuILenor (Papilio Philenor), Fig. 54, is much small- 
Figure 54. 

The Philenor. 
er than the former, but like it has black, swallow-tail 
wings, the black, however, shading into brown and green. 
Its caterpillar is brown, with two lateral rows of small, 
reddish protuberances with bristles. It lives on the birth- 
wort (Aristolochia serpentaria), and is usually found in the 
Southern States. 
The Asax (Papilio Ajax) was so named by Linneus, 
after one of the bravest of the Greek chieftains in the Tro- 
