SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES — CLARK 405 



Dead fishes or dead snakes especially are singularly attractive to 

 them. Every collector soon learns just where and how to place 

 this loathesome bait in forest paths and clearings to the best advan- 

 tage. 



Excrement is equally attractive to many different kinds. 



With all these weaknesses swallowtails have one virtue. They 

 may drink themselves stupid and helpless on the juices from a 

 highly fragrant carcass, but alcohol, so very attractive to many 

 other butterflies, scarcely appeals to them at all. I have yet to see 

 an inebriated swallowtail. Neither will they enthusiastically follow 

 up a trail of tobacco smoke, as do certain moths. Some kinds on a 

 hot day hover hopefully about collectors, but what they are yearning 

 for is his perspiration. 



Rocky, exposed hilltops, especially in woods, and low, wet, open 

 spots in woods and damp hollows in open fields always should be 

 visited. Bare hilltops are often the playgrounds of the males of 

 various kinds, and wet hollows are often the favorite haunts of 

 females. Scrubby, rough country everywhere forms the chosen 

 home of certain species. 



Briefly, in order to be successful in the quest for swallowtails you 

 must laiow all there is to know about your prospective victims and 

 be able to outwit them. 



EXPLANATION OF PLATES 



(All the specimens figured are in the collection of the United States National 



Museum) 



Plate 1 



Figure 1. One of the largest swallowtails ; Papilio priamus urvilleanus, female, 

 from the Solomon Islands. 

 2. One of the smallest swallowtails ; Leptocircus ciirius tvalkeri, from 

 Mt. Lo-fou-shan, east of Canton, China ; C. W. Howard. 



Plate 2 



Figure 3. Teinopalpns imperialis, male, from northern India. 

 4. Same, under side. 



Plate 3 



Figure 5. Euryades duponchelii, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. 



6. Hypermnestra helios. 



7. Same, under side. 



8. Sericinus telamon telamon, from Seishin, Korea. 



Plate 4 



FiGUKB 9. Eurycus cressida, male. 



10. Thais polyxena var. ochracea. 



11. Same, under side. 



12. Parnassius actius superhus, Narym, Turkestan. 



13. Same, uBder side. 



