PAPILIO ASTERIOIDES. Kk.ak.rt. 



Proo. Acad. Nat. Sc, Phil., p. ,101, n. ;>7. (18(ilj.) 

 (PLATE VI, FIG. 4 ?.) 



Mali:. JOxpaiuls 3i inches. 



Head and body black ; patagia' yellow ; abdomen with dorsal and lafcfal rows of yellow 

 tfjiots like A.stcrius. 



Upper surface black ; jn-imarie.s, u .sub-tnarginal row of eight yellow spots, the one nearest 

 the inner anirle isol>lonir and sometimes connected at lower end with the vcllo\v emargination, 

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

 cue between the first median nervule and sub-mediau nervure is broadest, the ne.xt below it is 

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

 yellow spot. 



Seeonddries, six yellow sub-marginal luiudes ; a yellow mesial l)and, dix'ided l)y the veins 

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

 the narrowest and brightest of which surmounts the anal eye, ^Yhich is orange, margined below 

 with yellow and pupilled with black ; emarginations yellow. 



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

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

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

 those of mesial band 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 tlieso and the mesial band is a row of irreguhu- 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 juale ; all the wings broader; inner band 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 baud of primaries nuich suffused 

 with black, the suffusion increasing as they near the costa, where the last few become ob.solcte, 

 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 Ficross its whole breadth, cutting it into two parts, the upper 

 of -which is red, the lower yellow ; this, I am convinced, however, has no specific value, as I 

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

 Soe., Phil., is from Mexico ; the d^ and 9 in my collection are from Costa Eica. 



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 iu almost as hopeless a 

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



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