208 BUTTERFLY. 



thorax are not always to be seen on this the Trojan 

 Monarch. The Papilio Priamus is a very rare 

 insect, and is a native of the island of Amboyna. 



P. Anterior is a very large species, measuring 

 six inches and a half in extent of wings: its colour 

 is black, with numerous cream-coloured spots and 

 patches, and the under-wings, which are tailed or 

 furnished with a pair of lengthened processes in 

 the middle, are edged with a row of red crescent- 

 shaped spots. It is said to be a native of India. 



P. Hector is very happily named, being of a 

 deep or velvet black colour, with the lower wings 

 marked by numerous blood-red spots: the thorax 

 is red on each side, and the upper wings have a 

 pair of obscure, broken, whitish, transverse clouds 

 or bars. It is a native of the East Indies. 



P. Sarpedon is a highly elegant species: the 

 wings are of a lengthened shape, and the lower 

 pair are stretched downwards into a pointed pro- 

 cess: the whole animal is black, with a broad, 

 interrupted pea-green stripe or band passing 

 through all the wings: on the lower part is also a 

 border of crescent-shaped green spots. 



Among the Equites Achivi the P. Menelaus 

 may be considered as one of the most splendidly 

 beautiful of the Butterfly tribe. Its size is large, 

 measuring, when expanded, about six inches; and 

 its colour is the most brilliant silver-blue that ima- 

 gination can conceive, changing, according to the 

 variation of the light, into a deeper blue, and in 

 some lights to a greenish cast: on the under side 

 it is entirely brown, with numerous deeper and 



