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series of six white spots. It spins together the leaves of the Aristolochia?, living in them until full grown, when it 

 undergoes its metamorphosis on the surface of the earth. 



The Pupa is short, contracted across the wing cases and at the shoulders, with the head square. 



The Perfect Insect appears in February and March, having passed about ten months in the pupa state. The 

 wings are curiously wrinkled between the nervules, in a transverse direction ; they are for the most part thinly covered 

 with scales, so as to be subdiaphanous ; this is more particularly the case in the anterior wings of the males. The 

 females would appear to be much rarer than the males, as, in collections of Lepidoptera from the Levant, I have 

 generally observed them not to amount to one fourth the number of the latter sex. They vary much in colour. The 

 specimen figured is a beautiful variety, of which many specimens were obtained by Dr. Emerich Frivaldszky during his 

 travels in the Levant. 



The geographical range of this species seems to be limited to the eastern shores of the Mediterranean and the Greek 

 Islands. 



DORIT1S Hiibn. 



1. D. Apoi.lina Boisd. Icon. Hist. t. 4. f. 1, 2. (1832). 



Boisd. Sp. Gen. i. 390. n. 1. (1836). 

 Freyer, Neu Beit. t. 253. 



P. Ap. Herbst. Schmett. t. 250. f. 5-8. (17S3-1806). 

 Thais Ap. Godt. Enc. M. ix. 82. n. 1. (1819). 



P. Pythius Esper, Schmett. von Eur. t. 177. com. 72. f. 1-4. (1777-1805). 

 P. Thia Hiibn. Europ. Schmett. Pap. f. 633-36. f. 730, 731. (1806-1827). 

 Doritis Th. Hiibn. Verx. belt. Schmett. 89. (1816). B. M. 



Asia Minor, Greek Islands. 



