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THE PERANTHUS BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Peranihus. COCHIN CHINA. 



PLATE XXIV. 



Papilio Peranthus, Gmelin's Linne, p. 2232. Shaw's Nat. 

 Misc. pi. 512, fig. 2. 



THE upper and under wings of this insect are 

 black, with an area of yellow green around the body, 

 and a macular band of transverse oblong-ovate olive 

 green spots in centre of the black, on the upper wings, 

 which are entire. The lower wings are considerably 

 scalloped, or indented, with two broad caudate 

 wings. The body, head, and eyes are black ; and the 

 antennae are short, in proportion to the size of the 

 insect, which measures nearly four inches and three 

 quarters in breadth. 



This insect inhabits Cochin China, and is more 

 remarkable for the singularity of its general form, 

 than for its beauty. It is exceedingly clumsy 

 and heavy in its appearance. 



