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SCARCE SWALLOW-TAIL BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Podalirius. 



PLATE IV. Fig. 2. 



Linn — Donovan, iv. 1, PI. 109 — Lewin, PI. 35. 



The ground colour in this conspicuous insect is 

 yellow ; the anterior edge and outer margin of the up- 

 per wings are black, and there are six transverse 

 tapering bands of the same colour on each, the third 

 and fifth from the base scarcely reaching the middle, 

 and the fourth and sixth not extending to the hinder 

 margin. The under wings are likewise marked with 

 several parallel black streaks ; a large portion of the 

 hinder extremity, as well as the elongated tail, are of 

 the same colour, and there is a series of large blue 

 crescents near the margin, which is itself edged with 

 yellow. The anal angle of each of the hinder wings 

 is ornamented with a red spot, bounded in front by 

 a black crescent, and behind by an oval black spot 

 bearing a curved streak of blue. The markings on 

 the under side do not differ materially from those of 

 the surface, the principal difference consisting in a 

 reddish line between the two largest bars on the 

 under wings. The body is yellow, black on the 

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