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VII. VosQriptions of tivo new Species of Papilio frovi 

 Ecuador. By W. C. Hewitson, F.L.S. 



[Read ISth March, 1869.] 



I AM indebted for these two species of TapiUo to a 

 kind friend, Mr. James Backhouse, of York, who re- 

 ceived them from his collector in Ecuador. 



1. Papilio Philetas. 



Male. Upperside. Dark green : the fringe with 

 lunular white spots, broad and conspicuous on the pos- 

 terior wing. Anterior wing crossed beyond the middle 

 by a furcate band of green-yellow spots, which com- 

 mences in two places near the costal margin, and unit- 

 ing at the second disco-cellular nervule, is continued in 

 five hastate spots to the anal angle. Posterior wing 

 with a submarginal band of pale green spots, the first of 

 which at the costal margin is linear. 



Underside. Anterior wing as above, except that there 

 are two rays of green from the base, that the spots of the 

 band are much larger, and that the whole of the wing 

 from the band to the apex is irrorated with green. Pos- 

 terior wing with the basal half thickly irrorated with 

 green, the nervures through it black, the outer half of 

 the wing dark green, first marked by pale green striae, 

 crossed below these by a band of seven scarlet spots, 

 with here and there between them irrorations of white ; 

 these spots are surrounded with purple, and followed by 

 a second band of six yellow spots : the lunular spots on 

 the margin broader than above. The abdomen white. 



Female. Does not diff"er from the male, except in 

 having the abdomen dark green. 



Exp. 4^ inches. 



Hah. — Ecuador. 



In the collection of W. C. Hewitson. 



It will be seen at once that this very beautiful species 

 belongs to that section of Papilio which contains Belus 

 and Crassus. 



