THE ATYMNUS BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Atymnus. 



Papilio P. R. Atymnus, Fab, Mant. Ins. torn. ii. p. 70, 



No. 662 Myrina Atymnus, MM. Latreille and Geoff- 



roy, Ency. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 574. 



THE wings above, are fulvous in both sexes, 

 varying in intensity of tint in different individuals, 

 from high toned orange, to pale saffron yellow ; the 

 anterior, with the exterior borders, blackish brown, 

 the intermediate boundary being regular, and pass- 

 ing in an arch from the middle of the costa to 

 the inner apical angle, leaving the greatest breadth 

 at the tip; posterior, with a narrower and paler 

 apical border, whose inner edge is slightly dentate, 

 and gradually diffused in the ground colour of the 

 surface, or entirely covered with a diluted yellowish 

 tint ; the inner margin is dirty grayish and downy, 

 lengthened in the direction of the anal appendage, 

 which is irrorated with dusky white ; underneath, 

 it is covered with a yellow ochraceous pulverulent 

 tint, which is uniformly diffused over the whole 

 surface, marked with four brownish parallel strigse, 

 the two interior ones being very obsolete, and appa- 

 rent only in fresh and well conditioned specimens: 



