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I shall now proceed to give -a few examples of 

 species belonging to each division of the genus 

 Pupil io. 



Among the Epdtes Troes the Papilio Priamus 

 should take the lead, not only from the correspond- 

 ing dignity of the name, but from the exquisite 

 appearance of the animal itself, which Linnaeus 

 considered as the most beautiful of the whole 

 papilionaceous tribe. " Papilionum omnium prin- 

 ceps, longe augustissimus, totus holosericus, ut 

 dubitem pulchrius quidquam, a Natura in insectis 

 productum." 



This admirable species measures more than six 

 inches from wings end to wings end: the upper 

 wings are velvet black, with a broad band of the 

 most beautiful grass-green and of a satiny lustre 

 drawn from the shoulder to the tip, and another 

 on the lower part of the wing, following the shape 

 of that part, and of a somewhat undulating appear- 

 ance as it approaches the tip: the lower wings are 

 of the same green colour, edged with velvet-black, 

 and marked by four spots of that colour, while at 

 the upper part of each, or at the part where the 

 upper-wings lap over, is a squarish orange-coloured 

 spot : the thorax is black with sprinklings of lucid 

 green in the middle, and the abdomen is of a 

 bright yellow or gold-colour. On the under side 

 of the animal the distribution of colours is some- 

 what different, the green being disposed in central 

 patches on the upper wings, and the lower being 

 marked by more numerous black as well as orange 

 spots. The red or bloody spots on each side the 



