THE HECKUBA BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Heckuba. 



PLATE VII. 



Papilio Heckuba, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pi. 167 Gmelin's 

 Linnaeus Systema Naturae, p. 2247. 



THE upper wings are of a very rich ferruginous 

 red colour; on the anterior margin there is an 

 acutely triangular mark, extending from the inser- 

 tion of the wing, nearly two-thirds across it, widen- 

 ing as it extends outwards, and of a deep sangui- 

 nous red, with dusky scalloped edges, and a double 

 border of crescent-shaped, deep straw coloured 

 spots ; the lower wings are black, of an ochre 

 yellow towards their base ; they are considerably 

 more indented than the upper ones, and provided 

 with a double border of oblong ovate deep straw 

 coloured spots, those next the edge of the wings 

 being set in pairs ; the body is blackish gray, some- 

 what ochre coloured above j the whole under sur- 

 face of the wings is undulated with different shades 

 of brown, black, gray, and rust colour, and marked 

 by several eyelike spots, or annulets of similar 

 colours. 



