PAPILIO PARIS. 



Plate XII. fig. I. -2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionida?, ieacA. 



Genus. Papilio, Auct. 



Papilio Paris. Alis nigris, aureo-viridi pulverulentis, postieis caudatis supra macula magna discoidali cyanea 

 ocelloque purpureo ; subtus luiuilis septcra rufis. (E.\pans. Alar. 4 unc. — 4 uiic. 9 lin.) 



Stn. Papilio (Equit. Trees.) Paris, Lhin. Si/st. Nat. -2. p. 745. No. 3. Fab. Ent. Sijst. 111. \.j). 1. No. 1. 

 Cramer, pi. 103. A. B. Esper. Aug. Sclimett. tab. 3. Jiij. 1. Bohduval, Hist. Nat. Lep. 1. ;j. 208. 



Habitat : China. 



Upper Side. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, and beautifully powdered with fine green specks. 

 All the wings are black, but have a greenish hue, occasioned by a multitude of powder-like specks of a 

 fine green. On the posterior margin of the anterior wings, near the lower corner, arises a series of green 

 spots, becoming weaker, disappearing near the middle of the wing, and composed of powder-like specks. 

 Posterior wings scolloped or dentated, each furnished with one tail, each scollop being edged with white. 

 At the anal angle, near the corner, is a deep red spot, shaped like a semi-eye, whose pupil is black ; and 

 towards the upper comer of the wing, is a large and very splendid blue spot, appearing in some directions 

 of a saxon gi'een colour, and diminishing to a line as it approaches the semi-eye, over which it extends in 

 an arch-like form, being there of a fine green colour. 



Under Side. It has apparently no palpi. Breast and abdomen of a very dark brown. The superior 

 wings dark brown at the base ; from the middle of the anterior edge of a dark ash colour, running towards 

 the upper comer, the tendons between being dark brown, which unite together at the external edge. 

 Posterior wings almost black, sprinkled, or finely powdered, with small grey specks near the abdomen ; 

 round the external edge is a series of eye-like rings of an orange colour, edged above witii purple. 



This very handsome species is often received from China, hut in an imperfect condi- 

 tion. The female, according to Godart (Enc. Meth. ix. p. C7.) is the Papilio Bianor, 

 Fabr. which has no trace of the shining green spot on the posterior wings. M. Boisduval, 

 however, asserts, that this is not correct, and that the female differs only from the male 

 in having the ground of the wings rather darker, and possessing a transverse interrupted 

 fascia of gi'een dots near the external margin of the upper wing ; these being represented 

 in Drur}''s figure, therefore indicate that his specimen was of the female sex. 



Dr. Horsfield has figured another species from Java (Lepid. Javan. pi. 1. fig. 14.), dif- 

 fering very slightly from the preceding, under the name of Papilio Arjuna, of which he has 

 also figured the larva aud pupa (pi. 4. fig. 11.). The former has the three first segments 

 of the body covered, as it were, with a leathery shield, elevated behind, and ornamented 

 with several ocelli ; the other segments are simple ; the chrysalis is considerably curved, 

 with the head bifid. 



