88 COMMON SWALLOWTAIL. 



Common Swallowtail, or Orange Butterfly. 



Upper side sooty-black, both the wings, except towards 

 the outer margin, thickly speckled with fine pale yellow 

 scales and with conspicuous pale sulphur-yellow spots 

 and bands. On the front wings there are four or five 

 spots arranged in a semicircle near the middle of the 

 front margin ; beyond these a row of three spots, fol- 

 lowed by a smaller elongate spot ; in the middle an 

 irregular transverse band composed of six partially 

 confluent spots, a small one beyond this on the hind 

 margin, a submarginal series of seven round spots, an 

 elongate curved mark near the apex, and eight small 

 spots on the outer margin. The hind wings have a 

 transverse band before the middle in continuation of 

 that on the front wings, a submarginal curved series of 

 seven spots and six smaller ones on the outer margin ; 

 besides these pale sulphur-yellow markings, there is a 

 round eye-like spot composed of fine blue and dull golden 

 scales on the anterior margin, and a similar one, bordered 

 behind by a broad dark red lunular spot, near the anal 

 angle. On the under side both the wings are dark 

 brown, with pale sulphur-yellow markings similar to the 

 upper side, and some additional streaks of the same 

 colour at the base ; on the hind wings there are also 

 eye-like spots similar to those on the upper side, and 

 besides these, there is a sublunular mark of blue and dull 

 golden scales just beyond the middle of the transverse 

 band, and a series of five similar marks before the sub- 

 marginal row of spots. The under side of the abdomen 

 is ochre-yellow, with four longitudinal black lines. The 

 expanse of the wings is 83 108 millm. (85- 4 in.). 

 O.E.J. 



"Larva. Pale yellowish green, marbled with purple 

 or purplish grey running in irregular sub-transverse 

 markings on the sides. Numerous pale ferruginous, 

 small, ocellate spots sprinkled about purple markings. 

 A broad, longitudinal, white stripe above spiracles. 

 Head and legs pale sandy brown ; as well as two small 





