PAPILIO DAUNUS. Boisplval. 



S|,ec. (.ien. I., p. 34L>, n. 182. (1836,) 



Ridings, Proc. Eiit. Soc, Pliil., I, p. 278. (18(12.) 



(PLATE VI, FIG. 1 cf, 2 C. 



Malk. E.xpands 3| to 5| inches. 



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

 band.s. 



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

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

 Costal to interior margin ; third from co.sta to first median veinlet; fourth along the disco- 

 cellular veins, from third sub-costa'l 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 and divided transversely by a ro^v of almost confluent yellow lunules. 



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 with 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-mai-ginal lunules; four tails, the outer and innermost of which are 

 the shortest, that next the outermost is longest, and the remaining one is half the length of 

 this latter ; emarginations yellow. 



Under surface much paler; primaries marked as on ujjper 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-cos:al veinlet, arc five triangular rufous spots nr flames ; discal arc 

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



Female .sanie as mule, but all the markings are much heavier, and, on upper surface, not 

 so intensely black as in the male. 



Habitat. Colorado, Kansas, Mexico, Guataniala. 



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 lunule 

 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 18G4, took several of this species in the Rocky Mountains, says it 



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