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THE DIOMEDES BUTTERFLY. 

 Papilio Diomedes. 



PLATE VIII. 



Papilio Diomedes, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pi. 296. Cramers 

 Descr. des Pap. pi. 122, fig A Linn. Syst. Nat> p. 

 749 Gmelin's Linne, pi. 2236. 



THE wings above, of this butterfly, are black, 

 having their disc unequally radiated with blue, 

 with a large round spot of black on the centre of 

 the upper wings, and their edges with a border of 

 equidistant white spots j the lower wings with a 

 margin of crescent-shaped white spots, and each 

 provided with a subcaudal black appendage ; the 

 internal margins of both wings with a tinge of 

 yellowish green ; the body is short, of a reddish 

 brown, and the eyes are red. 



The Diomedes butterfly is one of the larger 

 species, and measures five inches and a half from 

 the tip of one wing to that of the other. 



This insect is a native of China. 



