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Between these, and the row of eight spots, are two large yellow patches, which nearly take up that middle 

 space, with black tendons crossing them like fine threads. Posterior wings, next the shoulders, yellow, 

 continuing to about the middle of the wings. External margin soot-coloured ; having a broad bar of 

 yellow above it, whose upper side resembles a row of arches. Above this is an irregular black bar, 

 running from the anterior edges, across the wings, with two small scarlet streaks at the anal angles. On 

 this bar is a row of blue crescents, answering to and placed just above the arch-like bar before-mentioned ; 

 and in the centre is a faint mark of scarlet. 



The caterpillar of this butterfly feeds upon the orange-trees, from Paraguay to Georgia. 

 Its back is covered with large irregular white spots, with brown marks, which extend 

 along the middle and posterior parts of the body. The chrysalis is of a bright brown, 

 with several black dots. 



PAPILIO SINON. 



Plate XXII. fig;. 3. 4. 



Order : LepMoptera. Section : Diurna. Family : Papilioniclfe, Leach. 



Genus. Papilio, Auct. 



Papilio Sinon. Alls nigris, fasciis communibus virescenti-albis, posticis lunulis sex submarginalihiis virescenti- 



albis angiiloque ani rubro. (Expans. Alar. 3 imc. fere.) 

 Stn. Papilio Sinon, Fabr. Sijst. Ent. p. 452. Ent. Sijst. 111. \.p. 26. 7.5. Cramer, tab. 317. Jig. C. D. E. F. 

 Ency. Mei/i. ix. p. 53. Boisduv. Hist. Nat. Lep. I. p. 260. 



Papilio (Eq. Acbiv.) Protesilaus, Drury, App. vol. 2. 



Habitat: Jamaica (i)r«n/). Florida, Cuba (iJoJsrfHB.). North America (iJ«c. i)/e7/(.). 



Upper Side. The thorax black; the hair thereof greenish. Abdomen black. All the wings 

 black ; posterior ones being furnished with two tails, edged with white. Close to the shoulders, in the 

 anterior wings, rises a stripe of sea-green, which crosses the inferior ones ; and, running parallel with the 

 abdominal margin, ends near the extremity of the body. A little below this is a small scarlet spot, 

 placed near the anal angle ; with two smaller spots, of a green colour, below it. At a little distance from 

 the shoulders, a second green stripe, rather broader than the first, begins at the posterior edge of the 

 anterior wings, and crosses the inferior ones, parallel with the first, being continued a little lower. On 

 the anterior wings, about the middle of the anterior edge, rises a bar, of a fine sea-green colour, which 

 crossing both wings, teraiinates at the middle of the posterior, being narrowest at each end. A row of 

 eight white spots runs parallel with the external edge, ending at the lower corner. Near the external 

 edges of the posterior wings is placed a row of five crescents, of a green colour. 



Under Side. Breast and abdomen grey-coloured. Anterior wings light chesnut, having a darker cloud 

 near the anterior angle. All the gi-een spots and marks, seen on the upper side, are also visible here. 

 The ground of the posterior wings is rather paler than the anterior ; and the green marks and stripes 

 are rather larger here, than on the upper side. The scarlet spot, on the abdominal edge, is considerably 

 larger on this side. A scarlet stripe also begins on the anterior edge, and fills completely the space 

 between the broad green bar and the second stripe, mentioned above, extending as low as the extremity 

 of the body. The two scollops, next the abdominal comer, are black ; whereon appear a few blue 

 powder-like specks. 



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