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Upper Side. Antennae black. Head, thorax, and abdomen dirty black. Wings soot-coloured, or 

 dirtv black, having a small white spot in the middle of the anterior: a row of oblong white spots runs 

 from the anterior edge to the lower corner, some being pointed and placed a little distance from the 

 tips ; base of the wings powdered with white dust, increasing to a clear white as it recedes from the body. 

 'J'he posterior wings powdered in the same manner ; and having four pointed white spots on each, 

 crossing them from the upper to the abdominal corners. Abdominal groove yellow, extending towards 

 the middle of the wing. 



Under Side. Palpi, sides, and breast sooty. Neck and abdomen grey. Anterior wings as on the 

 upper side, but the white more distinct. Posterior wings next the body black, and surrounded by a red 

 circle. The remainder of the wings principally yellow, having the nerves and also a margin running 

 along the external edges soot-coloured. Margins of the wings entire. 



PAPILIO MENESTHEUS. 



Plate IX. fig. 1,2. 



Order: Lepidoptcra. Section: Diurna. Family: Papilionidte, ieacA. 



Genus. Papii.io, Auct. Papilio (Eq. Ach.) Drury. 



Papilio Menestheus. Alls deutatis, caiidatis, nigris, fasci;\ macidari maculisque margiiialibus flavis, omnibus 

 subtus basi albido striatis, posticis lunulis rufis coerulescentibustiue. (Expans. Alar. 5 unc. 3 lin.) 



Syn. Papilio (Eq. Ach.) Menestheus, Drunj, App. vol. 2. Crain.pl. 142. fg. A. B. Fnhr. Eiit. Syst. 111. 1. 

 p. 31. Enc. Meth. ix. p. .59. Boisd. Hut. Nat. Lep. \.p. 236. 



Habitat : Sierra Leone (Drury). India (erroneously, Fahr.). 



Upper Side. Antenna brown. The head, thorax, and abdomen greenish black. Anterior wings 

 black, covered with minute green spots, the tips like black velvet. Some long russet-coloiu'ed hairs, 

 occupying a space the size of a sixpence, are situated close to the posterior margin, near the lower 

 corner ; there are also twenty lemon-coloured spots on each, eight of which are very small and marginal ; 

 eight other oblong spots fomi a bar, rising on the anterior margin and running obliquely across the 

 wings, meeting near the extremity of the body. Posterior wings velvety black, covered at the base with 

 small green spots, and having five lemon spots running along the external edges. Each of these wings 

 is furnished with a tail, having a lemon spot on each side ; and on the abdominal edge is an eye, whose 

 under part is red, and the upper blue. Near the upper corner is a red spot, hidden in the figure by the 

 superior wings. 



Under Side. Head and breast ash-coloured. AU the spots and marks which on the upper side are 

 lemon colour, on this are pale cream-coloured. Anterior wings soot-coloured, the spots very distinct ; 

 those next the external edges being larger, with many cream-coloured stripes at the base running 

 longitudinally parallel with the tendons both of the anterior and posterior wings. These are adorned 

 with several eyes of velvety black ; the upper sides being blue, and the under orange verged with cream. 

 The marginal spots are considerably larger than on the upper side. 



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