46 PAPILIO DAUNUS. 



is rare and iliffieult to capture, owing to its higii ilight and the almost inaccessible nature of its 

 haunts. 



Friend Sachs, of Xcw York, added another to the numberless favors already conferred by 

 loaning me from his collection the original of the c? figures for the jiurpose of illustrating the 

 accompanying plate ; the 9 is from one of a number which I received from Vera Cruz, Mexico. 



TAPILIO ZOLICAON. Boisdwal. 



Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 281. (18.")2.;i 



P. Zdkann, Lucas, Eev. Zool., p. 136. (1852.) 



P. Machaon, var. Colifomica, Menetries, Cat. Mus. Petr. Lep. I, p. fifl. (IS-^-i.) 



(PLATE VI, FIG. 3 $.) 



Male and Fem.\.li:. E.xpands .3 to 3} inches. 



Antcnnfc black ; head and thorax black with two yellow lines; abdomen black with a 

 lateral yellow band. 



Upper surface rich yellow, primaries 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 disco-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; 

 nervurcs dcfiiicd Mith black. 



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

 broad black marginal band ; sub-marginal lunules yellow, above these, within the marginal 

 band, a row of shining blue crescents; anal eye large, i-ed, edged below with yellow and 

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



Under surflice paler ; primaries marked much as above. Secondaries, interior to the 

 sub-marginal lunules, a b.nnu of greyish yellow edged with blue ; adjoining the marginal 

 band the wing is tinged with fulvous. 



Habitat. .California, Oregon, Vancouver's Lsland. 



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. Machaon is found in 

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

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

 on sufficient grounds, as, after a rigid comparison, I do not find it to differ from the European 

 types more than do examples from the Himalayas, China, Turkey, &c., which is very little, 

 indeed. 



*Hubner, Saraml. Exot. Sclimett., f. 77.5, 77G. (1818-1827.) 

 tSeiidder, Ent. Notes, II, p. 45. (1869.) 



