FAMILY PAPILIONID^. 201 



Papilio PHiLEKoa ( Fabricius). P. astikocs ( Drury). 



Head, thorax and abdomen black ; the breast marked with two rows of yellowish dots : 

 antenns and eyes brown or brownish black. Upper side : Forewings black with a 

 green lustre ; apical area brownish ; outer margin marked wiih five si^ots,and edge 

 trimmed with black and white : hindwiugs polished green, silky, darker at the base ; 

 posterior margin marked with five white lunules ; anal angle excavated and edged 

 with white ; tail rounded, its angles trimmed with black and white, the crenae being 

 white. Under side : Forewings black ; apical area olive ; margin marked with five 

 yellowish spots ; edge black and yellowish white : hindwings highly polished, green 

 End lustrous, with the outer and inner margins marked with large fusccus sj ols sur- 

 rounded with a velvety black ring, with a single spot of yellowish white on the outer 

 side ; edge trimmed with black and yellowish white ; tail dilated. Legs and feet black, 



Papilio turntjs (Linnaeus). P. alcidamas (Cramer). ( Plate xxxviii, fig. 3.) 



Aatennfe black : body black above, marked with a yellow stripe beginning at the neck, 

 and passing over the insertion of the wings and along the sides of the abdomen : sides 

 of the breast striped with yellow ; palpi yellow. Upper side ; Wings yellow, marked 

 by five subcostal bands : the first is a marginal one, extending from the shoulder to 

 a yellow lunule at the anal angle ; the second extends as far, but grows thinner and 

 terminates in a point, and the other three are abbreviated and confintd to the fore- 

 wing : costal edge black. The outer marginal band is wide, black, and common to 

 both pair of wings, and is ornamented with six lunules, larger and mere perfect in nie 

 hind- than in the forewings, the first and last fulvous. Hindwings scollcpped and 

 tailed : tail rather long and narrow ; anal angle lulvous, edged with white, and 

 ornamented with three lunules, yellow, black and blue, and a ferruginous one below. 

 The hindwing edges are trimmed with yellow ; the forewings with white. L'eneath, 

 the yellow is pale ; the subcostal bands are less black and velvety, and bordered wilh 

 greenish. Outer margin, the edge is black : there is a dusky yellow band, succeeded 

 by a broader and more dusky one, showing greenish yellow, and bounded on the 

 inside with a strong black line of scollops. Hindwings, the edge is yellow, succeeded 

 by black and yellow lunules : the black line within is bordered with blue. Expanse 

 of wing four inches. Length from the head to the extremity of the tail, 2| inches. 

 This is one of our common butterflies, and resembles the Machaon of Europe, but i(s 



markings and form are more like those of the Podalirius. Its larvae axe not known as 



injurious to the cultivated vegetables. 



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