SWALLOW-TAIL. 3 



there is another spot of the same in the yellow spot, next to its front 

 edge. 



The caterpillar is green, with velvet black rings, dotted alternately 

 with yellowish red. 



The crysalis is light green, with yellow on the sides and the back: 

 this is said of the female. "The colour of the male varies from nearly 

 black to a light brownish rufous, having a darker line down each side 

 and bordering the wing-cases; the two prominences on the front of the 

 head, that on the under side of the front of the thorax, and the inner 

 side of the prominences representing the fore legs of the larva, are 

 dark rufous, nearly approaching to black. The wing-cases are slightly 

 tinged with the same colour, having a few black veins originating at 

 the base, and running down towards the anal angle, giving out branches 

 towards the exterior margin along their whole extent. The characters 

 which appear to be common to both, are the shape and the rufous 

 lines down the sides." 



The figure is taken from an unusually fine specimen in my own 

 collection, bred in 1851, from a chrysalis received with others from 

 the Rev. George Rudson Read, who had them from Cambridgeshire 

 by the "Penny Post." 



