PAPILIO. 



Genus III. PAPILIO L 



mn. 



Amaryssus Dolman (1814). 



Iphiclides, Jasoniades, Euphceades, Heraclides, Laertiades, Menelaides, Achillides, Idaides, 



Zetides, Orpheides, Nestorides, Calaides, Priamides, Parides, Ithobalus, Iliades, Arisbe, 



Hiibn. Verz. bek Schmett. 82—89. (1816). 



Head large. 



Eyes rounded, prominent. 



Maxillce often of considerable length. 



Labial Palpi short, pressed closely to the fore part of the head, triarticulate ; the last joint short, 

 indistinct, all clothed with scales and long hairs. 



Antenna! generally rather long, with an elongate arched club. 

 Thorax rather stout ; prothorax not strikingly developed. 



Anterior Wi?igs mostly subtriangular, sometimes falcate, elongate, or rounded ; the upper disco- 

 cellular nervule about equal to the space between the two discoidal nervules ; third subcostal 

 nervule thrown off immediately opposite the end of the cell ; median and submedian nervures 

 united by a baseo-median. 



Posterior Wings subtriangular or rounded, sometimes gradually prolonged into a tail, more often 

 with the outer margin rounded, more or less deeply dentate, with one or more of the teeth pro- 

 longed into a tail, sometimes of great length ; the precostal nervure two-branched, the inner 

 branch bent downwards, and united to the costal. 



Legs generally long, powerful. Anterior Tibiae with a spine of various length, but always 

 very distinct. Tarsi with the first joint generally equal in length to the rest combined ; fourth 

 joint shortest. Claws all simple. 

 Abdomen moderately large, not much elongated. 



Lar va rather short, stout ; the tentacula without any external sheath. 

 Pupa supported by a filament passed entirely round it. 



In the Systema Natures the genus Papilio comprises the whole of what are now known as the Diurnal Lepidoptera, 

 several species now excluded from that group, as well as one or two moths placed in the genus apparently from 

 ignorance of the structure of their antennas. Linne only knew about two hundred and sixty species properly 

 belonging to his genus Papilio, a number about equal to those contained in the group to which the name is now 

 restricted, corresponding in a great measure to his section Equites ; about one fourth of the species in that section are, 

 however, not now included in the Papilionidas. Fabricius, in the Entomologia Systematica, lopped off the section 

 Plebeii of Linne, calling them Hesperia; ; and in the Systema Glossatorum, left unfinished at his death, he had restricted 

 the genus Papilio nearly to its present limits, retaining in it the species which compose the genera Ornithoptera and 



November, I 846. ^ 



