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THE HECTOR TROJAN. 

 Papillo Hector INDIA. 



PLATE V. 



Papilio Hector, Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 744. Shaw's Nat. 

 Miscellany, pi. 271. 



THIS Papilio is wholly of a deep velvet black, 

 the upper wings clouded with cleft patches of 

 pale ochre yellow, and the centre and lower parts of 

 the under wings, head, and tail, with crescent-shaped 

 regular patches of bright scarlet ; and with an edge, 

 or fillet of white round the whole margins. Inferior 

 margin with a caudate wing. 



The Hector Trojan is a native of India, but of rare 

 occurrence, and measures four and a half inches 

 from tip to tip of extended wings. The antennae are 

 very long and slender. 



The strong contrast of the deep black and scarlet 

 of this insect, gives it a striking effect. 



