ILLUSTRATIONS 



OF 



EXOTIC ENTOMOLOGY. 



PAPILIO ANTIMACHUS. 



Plate I. 



Ordbk ; Lepidoptera. Section: Vmrna, Latr. Family: Papilionidae, icnt'/i. 



Genus. Papilio, Zinn. (Section Equit. Troj.) ^-c. 



Papilio Antimachus. Alis nigris, anticis elongatis maeulis fulvis, posticis subdentatis disco radiato riifo, nigro 



puuctato ; apice nigro lunulis marginalibus fulvis. (Expans. Alar. 82 unc.) 

 Syn. Papilio Antimachus, il?-«r2/, ^1/)/;. t)o^. 3. Fabr. Ent. Syst.^. pt.\. p.l^. No. 31. Donov. Nat. Rcpos. 



pi. 100. ^ 101. God. and Latr. Enc. Mith. ix. p. -28. No. 8. Esper. Aus. Schm. t. 22./. 2. Boisd. 



Hist. Nat. Lep. \.p. 188. 



Habitat ; Sierra Leone {Drury). 



Upper Side. Antennae brown. Head black, with eight whiteish spots on the top. Thorax black, 

 with four white spots at the base of the anterior wings. Abdomen black at the base and at top, clay- 

 coloured on the sides and extremity. Anterior wings black at the base, but at the extremities more of 

 a brown colour, with eighteen different shaped marks and spots ; those next the body dark orange, the 

 others yellow clay-coloured, some being so faint as to be hardly discernible. Posterior wings slightly 

 dentated, the inner scollops being edged with clay-coloured crescents. These wings, next the body, are 

 of a dark orange ; the remainder clay-coloured, with a broad black border running round each wing, 

 from the upper corners to the abdominal ones ; the inner sides being deeply indented, and the outer 

 ones scolloped, with eight roundish black spots near the middle of each wing, one of which is supposed 

 to be hid in the figure. 



Under Side. Head black, with two white spots in front. Palpi scarcely discernible. Breast and 

 sides black, spotted with yellow. Abdomen clay-coloured. The middle of the superior wings has a 

 black patch, on which are three orange-coloured spots, answering to three on the upper side ; a long 

 angular dark orange mark joins the anterior edges next the body, close to which are two roundish black 

 spots ; the extreme parts of these wings are of a dark greyish ash colour, the ribs being black. Posterior 

 wings clay-coloured, with eight black spots, answering to those on the upper side : the black border 

 being narrower on this side, and the inner edges much deeper indented. 

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