64 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



The type of the genus is 



AXIOCERSES PERION. 



Papilio perion, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iv. pi. 379, figs. B, C 



This is a red Butterfly, expanding an inch and a quarter 

 across the fore-wings, and with a rather long slender tail on 

 the hind-wings. In the fore-wings the costa and hind-margin 

 are broadly black, and there are two black bands across the 

 red part of the wing. The hind-wings are narrowly bordered 

 with black, and have a third short black band nearer the base 

 than the others. The under side is brown, with a sub-mar- 

 ginal row of small golden spots, and a similar sub-costal row 

 on the fore-wings. There are also three or four irregular rows 

 of larger transverse golden spots on ail the wing?. 



The locality given by Cramer is Surinam ; but the Butterfly 

 is probably a native of West Africa. 



B. Sub-costal nervure usually four-branched* 

 This section includes most of the typical Old-World 

 Lyccenida. Most of the genera are tailed, and marked with 

 ocellated spots beneath. The section is sparingly represented 

 in North America by a few species belonging to, or allied to, 

 European genera ; and in Tropical America we meet with only 

 a very few species allied to Plebdus ; the Lycccnidcz (except 

 so far as regards species allied to Thechi] being almost entirely 

 replaced in Tropical America by the allied Famiiy Lemoniida. 



GENUS ZEPIIYRUS. 

 Ruralis, Barbut, Gen. Ins. p. 179(1781). 

 Zephynts, Dalman, K. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. xxxvii. pp. 62, 

 90 (1816); Wallengren, Lepid. Skand. Rhop.p. 171 (1857); 

 De Niceville, Butterflies, Ind. iii. p. 299 (1890) ; Schatz& 

 Rober, Exot. Schmett. ii. p. 267 (1892). 

 * Vide suprh> p. 48. 



