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tifuUy veined with blue on a white ground. 

 The upper part of the wings is of a fine 

 white colour like silk, striped with black 

 lines, fig. 9. The head has two round 

 brown eyes, at the front are two long in- 

 curv'edpointslyingtogether, between these 

 a spiral proboscis, which they can put out 

 to the length of their body, with this 

 they suck the juice out of the flowers. 

 At the top are two long capillary anten- 

 nae or horns, terminating in a black 

 little club with a yellow point, the rest 

 of the horns are black ; all butterflies 

 are furnished with these. On the fore- 

 part of the body are four yellow legs, 

 before them a pair of blunt and hairy 

 ones. These parts are common to all the 

 butterflies of the first class, i. e. those 

 termed Papilio. 



There are two sexes, male and female. 

 The females soon lay their eggs. The dif- 

 ference of the sex is not so conspicuous 

 in the butterfly, as it is in those of the 

 second class termed phalaena, or moths ; 

 for in the first there is no difference except 

 in the belly, which is thicker and larger 



