CHLORISSES Sarpedon, 

 Sarpedon Biitterjly. 



NATURAL GROUPS. 



Tribe, Papiliones. Family, Papilionidae. Sub-fam. Papiliona?, 



Genus — . Sub-Genus, Chlorisses, Nobis. 



Sub-Generic Character. 



Wings, black, banded or variegated with green : the posterior nar- 

 rowed, with obsolete acute tails ; Head, thick, sessile, the 

 front very hairy ; Anteunse, long, the club spatulate, and con- 

 cave beneath ; Posterior feet, with the first joint of the tarsus 

 as long- as the tibiae. 



Specific Character. 



Wings black, tcith a common green band: posterior obsolete ly 

 tailed: beneath, marked icith a red and black liinalcd spot at 

 the base. 



Papilio Sarpedon. Linn. Fab. Entom. Syst. 3. p. 1. p. 14. 



No. 41. Cramer. PI. 122./. D. E. 



Papilio Sarpedon. Ency. Meth. 9. p. 46. No. 62. 



Entomologists of the last century classed all day-flying 

 Butterflies in the Genus Papilio. But this denomination 

 has been restricted, of late years, to such as possess six long 

 }3erfect legs ; very short palpi, and the anterior shanks 

 spined near the middle. Now this group is so peculiarly 

 distinct, and comprises within itself such numerous vari- 

 ations of form, that we have always viewed it as pre-emi- 

 nently calculated to put to the most severe test any arrange- 

 ment, the principles of which are conceived to be those of 

 Nature. The Pajjiliomv have consequently, for many years, 

 engaged much of our attention. Baffled in numerous 

 attempts to understand their arrangement, it was only upon 

 applying those principles of the natural system, which we 

 have derailed in Northern Zoology, vol. 2, that their true 

 affinities became apparent. At present we shall only apprise 

 the Entomologist that the divisions above named are 

 circular groups, and the result of strict analysis. The 

 sub-genus Chlorisses, in reference to Ornithology, is a 

 scansorial type. 



The present Insect, figured from the male sex, is one of 

 the most beautiful butterflies of India. General Hardwicko 

 presented us with specimens from Nepaul ; and we have 

 since received others from Java. The typical species is 

 Papilio Agamemnon, where the green colour is broken 

 into round spots. The most extraordinary circumstance, 

 however, which belongs to the group, is this; that although 

 a sub-genus, it yet contains within itself subordinate types 

 of form, representing all the higher divisions. The only 

 ornithological group we have yet ascertained as possessing 

 this property, is the sub-genus Parus (proper) . 



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