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he styles Achivi or Greeks. The inferior wings of several are pro- 
longed into a sort of tail. Such is the 
P. machaon, Lin.; P. grand-porte-queue, Godart, Hist. Nat. 
des Lépid. de France, I, 1, 2. Wings yellow, spotted and 
striped with black; inferior wings prolonged into a tail and with 
blue spots near the posterior margin, one of them ocelliform; 
some red on the internal angle. France. 
The caterpillar is green with black rings dotted with red. It 
feeds on the leaves of the carrot, fennel, &c. 
Two other tailed Papilios are found in France, the P. poda- 
lirtus, Godart, Ibid., I, 1, 23 and the P. Alexanor(1). 
ZELIMA, Fab. 
This subgenus only differs from Papilio proper in the club of the 
antenne which is shorter and more rounded. 
I know two species, one from Senegal, the other from Gui- 
nea, both of which are in the splendid collection of Count De- 
jean. 
Parnassius, Lat.—Doritis, Fab. 
Where the inferior palpi evidently extend above the clypeus, taper 
to a point and are distinctly triarticulated. The terminal button of 
their antennz is short, almost ovoid and straight. The females 
have a kind of corneous boat-shaped sac at the posterior extremity 
of their abdomen. 
The caterpillars also have a retractile tentaculum in the neck 
like those of the true Papilio, but the cocoon in which they become 
chrysalides is formed of leaves connected by filaments of silk. 
The species are exclusively proper to the Alpine and sub- 
alpine regions of Europe and the north of Asia. Such for in- 
stance is the 
P. Apollo; Papilio Apollo, L.; Godart, Hist. Nat. des Lépid. 
de France, II, B, ii, 1. White, spotted with black; four ocel- 
(1) For the remaining species, see Godart, Ibid., and the Encyc. Méthod., arti- 
cle Papillon, genus Papillon. See alsd, for European species, the excellent work 
of Ochsenheimer, continued by M. Treitschke. 
For the species of this genus and of those Lepidoptera in general that inhabit 
this country, see the work of Messrs Bois-Duval and Major Le Conte on the Lepi- 
doptera of the United States, now being published in Paris. Am. Ed. 
Vor. IV.—X 
