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blue, forming one wide arcuated band; outer border dentated; 

 tail spatulate, bordered with yellow inside, as well as all the emar- 

 ginations of all the wings. 



Beneath primaries paler brown, with three blackish bands, pro- 

 ceeding from the anterior margin, the two outer abbreviated, the 

 basal continuous. Secondaries brown; a transverse line gradually 

 narrowing towards its end. Marginal lunules, rufous, slightly 

 bordered with yellow ; the band of bluish atoms (in the fresh sub- 

 ject) surmounted by four or five triangular russety spots. 



Body black, with two yellow spots on the sides. 



Larva similar to that of P. turnus. 



Inhabits the Southern States. 



BOISD. 



3. P. rutulus Boisd. The figure, size, and fades of P. turnus, of which it 

 is perhaps only a modification. Ann. Soc. ent. de France, X, 2me 



ser, 279. 



Upper side ochry yellow, with the extremity of all the wings 

 rather widely bordered with black ; primaries cut by the nerves, 

 and marked with five unequal transverse black bands, the first 

 continuing from the base the whole length of the abdominal edge 

 of the secondaries.; the second descending to the anal angle of the 

 latter, and abruptly bending to unite with the first; the third a 

 little divided, and ending on the first branch of the median ; the 

 fourth at the extremity of the discoidal cellule an-d not passing the 

 median ; the fifth somewhat shorter ; the border of the primaries 

 is divided by a ray of ochry yellow oblong points ; secondaries with 

 a streak or blackish arc on the extremity of the discoidal cellule; 

 a marginal row of six crescents, of which the anal is fulvous and 

 the other five yellow ; anal emargination bordered with fulvous, 

 surmounted as well as the internal crescent with a group of blue 

 atoms ; the exterior edge with wide obtuse teeth, and a spatulate 

 black tail, edged with yellow within, as well as all the emargina- 

 tions. 



Under side similar to the upper, the marginal points forming a 

 continuous ray, preceded by a ray of grayish atoms ; that of the 

 secondaries has the border powdered with yellowish gray, the 

 marginal crescents being ochry as above. A row of bluish cres- 

 cents on the anterior edge of the border. Body blackish above, 

 yellowish below, with two black ventral rays. 



It differs from P. turnus in that the upper side of the secondaries 



