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Upper Side. Head, body, and abdomen dark brown. Anterior wings varied with dark brown and 

 orange ; in some the dark brown occupying the greater part of the wings, in others the orange colour is 

 predominant ; but the tips and external edges in all are dark brown ; in some two ocelli are seen close 

 to the anterior edge, and near the lower corner ; but in others these ocelli are not to be discovered. 

 Posterior wings dark brown and orange. Round the edge is a waved dark border, through which a 

 small waved white line, runs from the anal angle about half way ; above this are placed, in a row, five 

 round ocelh, and one oblong, next the anal angle ; the pupils being black, and the irides orange colour. 

 Above these is a broad orange-coloured band, and next the body the wings are dark brown. All the 

 wings are entire. 



Under Side. Anterior wings, at the base, deep clay-coloured, with some dark brown clouds on the 

 anterior edges and interior angles ; but in some these clouds are hardly perceptible. In some a small 

 scolloped line runs along the external edges, from the tips to the lower comers, of a redchsh hue ; in 

 others this is not to be seen, having a dark brown border in that part. Posterior wings very pale 

 clay-coloured, with a cloud on the midcDe of the external edges, of a reddish brown; where (in some) is 

 a silver spot like a half moon. ITie black pupils of the six ocelli, seen on the upper side, are, in some 

 specimens, very small here, and just perceptible ; in others they are not to be seen. " In short, nature 

 forms such a variety of this species, that it is difficult to set bounds, or to know all that belongs to it." — 

 Dru7'y. 



PAPILIO THOAS. 



Plate XXII. fig. 1.2. 



Order; Lepuloptera. Section; Diurna. Family; Papilionida;, ieacA. 

 Genus. Papilio, Auct. 



Papilio Thoas. Aiis supra nigris, fascia communi lunulisque submarginalibus flavis, posticis caudatis, his 



subtus macul4 discoidali ferruginea lunulisque cceruleis. (Expans. Alai-. 4 unc. 9 lin.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Equ. Acb.) Thoas, Limi. Mant. p. 536. Fabr. Ent. Si/st. 111. 1. p. 32. iVo. 94. Cramer, pi. 



161. Jig. A. B. Zatr. et God. Enc. Mtth. ix. p. 62. 103. Boisduval et Leconte Icon. Lep. Amer. Sept. pi. 



12.en3. Boisd. H.n. Lep. 1. p. 355. 



Var. Pap. Cresphontes, Cramer, 165, I6G, A. 



Habitat: Surinam (Dj-ucj/). Paraguay to Georgia (5oisd.). 



Upper Side. Thorax black. Two small yellow streaks extend from the eyes to the shoulders. 

 Abdomen yellow, with a black dorsal line; apex red brown. Wings black, with deep yellow spots 

 on them. A yellow bar, near half an inch broad, begins at the middle of the superior wings, and 

 running parallel with the anterior edges, crosses the inferior ones just below the shoulders. Several 

 oval and oblong yellow spots are placed between the tips and this bar. One also is situated close 

 above it, near the middle of the wing ; being separated from it by the tendon, which is black. Below 

 the bar are four small spots, beginning at the interior angle (the first being double). Posterior wings 

 furnished with two black tails, having a long yellow stripe in the middle. About a quarter of an inch 

 above the external edge is a row of six yellow spots, whereof one is obscured by the anterior wing ; there 

 being but five shewai in the plate. 



Uyider Side. The breast is ash colour. Anterior wings partly soot colour, but principally 

 yellow. A row of eight yellow spots is situated witliin the external margin, and the yellow bar, 

 observable on the upper side, is not to be distinguished on this. Several small yellow lines rise at the 

 shoulders, and expanding like the sticks of a fan, occupy almost the chief membrane of the wing. 



