THE PARNASSIANS. 



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the broadest part of the band there are three large spots, which 

 in some specimens are red, and in others magenta. In either 

 case the colour is of the most glowing brilliancy, and flashes 

 like jewels in a setting of jet. The lower wings are white, with 

 a very slight edging of black. Below, it is plain white, and in 

 the female there is neither magenta nor red in the upper wings. 

 This species is a native of the Natal district. Another species, 

 Teracolas Phlegyas, which is found near the White Nile, bears 

 some resemblance to the preceding insect, except that the whole 

 of the band on the edge of the upper wings is magenta ; and 

 another, Teracolas Hewitsonii, has none of the brill ant colours 

 which are usually found in members of this genus, but is dun, 

 crossed with streaks of black. 



We now leave the Pierinee, and take a few examples of the 

 next group, the Papilioninse. 



The first of these is Pamassius CJiarltonhis. This genus is 

 tolerably familiar to English entomologists, because the Apollo 



Fig. 325.— Pamassius Charltonius. 

 (White and grey, with blue and red spots.) 



Butterfly belongs to it. It is very dubious whether this insect 

 can really be considered as English. Many years ago, however, 

 I found in a drawer in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford an 

 Apollo Butterfly, which was said to have been caught by a 



