PAPILIO POLYDAMAS. 



Plate XVII. %. 1. 2. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionidse, Leach. 



Genus Papilio (Equit. Troj.) Linn. 



Pap. POLYDA.MAS. Alis tlentatis, nigro- virescentibus, fascia communi interrupta flava, postieis subtus tnaculis 

 linearibus fiexuosis rubris, tribus argentfis adjectis. (E.xpans. Alar. unc. 4.) 



Syn. Pap. Polydamas. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 747. JVo. 12. Merian. Surinam, pi. 3\. Cramer Pap. li^. p. 33. 

 pi. 211. f. D. E. Herhst. Pa]), t. 10./. 6. 7. Boisd. et Leconte Icon, des Chen, de VAmer. Sept. pi. 1. 

 Boisd. Hist. Nat. Lep. 1. 321. No. 162. 



Habitat : America, from Georgia to Brazil, Antigua (IJniry). 



Upper Side. The head and thorax are black ; with two red spots on the neck, and two small 

 white spots at the base of the antennee. All the wings are scolloped, and of a dark green colour. The 

 anterior wings have a row of yellow spots rising near the tips, which, running across the middle of the 

 inferior ones, in a circular manner, meet at the extremity of the body ; some of them being shaped like 

 the bearded points of arrows. The hollow or concave part of each scollop, in the inferior wings, is 

 edged with yellow. 



Under Side. The head, breast, feet, and abdomen are black; with several red spots on the sides, 

 abdomen, and shoulders. All the wings are black ; the anterior having some of the yellow spots that 

 are seen on the upper side ; with seven irregular red spots, placed along the edge of each posterior 

 wing, and three silver spots or marks joining to the second, third, and fourth. 



Linnasus states, that this msect mhabits the Hibiscus mutabilis. By other authors it 

 is stated to feed upon the Aristolochia Serpentaria, or Virginian snake-root. The cater- 

 pillar is brown, with fleshy spines of the same colour, and red stripes, each segment also 

 being ornamented with four eye-like spots, half yellow and half red. 



NYMPHALIS ASSIMILIS. 



Plate XVII. fig. 3. 4. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diiirna. Family: Nyin\ihalidx, Swains. 



Genus. Nymphalis, Latr. et God. Papilio (Nymphalis Phal.), Limi. Brury. 



Nymphahs Assimilis. Alis subrepandis nigris concoloribus, lineis maculisque albo-virescentibus, jiosticis striga 

 apicali puiictorum coccineorum. (Expans. Alar, fere 6 unc. [Bi-ury'] 3J unc. [Enc. Meth.Y}. 



Syn. Papilio (Nymphal. Phal) assimilis, ii^n. Syst. Nat. 2. p. 782. iVo. 194. Cramer, pi. \^i. \. Esper. 

 Pap.Exot.t.dl.f.l. Fabr. Ent. Syst. 111. l.p.^Q. No.Ui. (Papilio Eq. Ach.) 



Habitat : China. 



Upper Side. Head black, with two white frontal spots. Thorax black, with three white stripes. 

 Abdomen black, marked on the sides with white. Anterior wings sooty black, having a number of large 

 spots and stripes on them of different forms and dimensions, of a greenish-grey colour. Near the external 

 edge is a double row of sixteen small spots of the same greenish grey, and above them are five larger of 

 a more circular shape. Posterior wings resemble the superior, but have a br^md border of clearer black 

 running along the external edge, whereon are five spots of a scarlet colour, ;!Lclining to pink, one having 

 a small black spot in the middle. The wings are slightly dentated. 



