J A S I A Athama, 

 Athama Hutterfly. 



Tribe, Papiliones. Family, Nymphalidae. Nobis. 

 Sub-Generic Character. 



Lozcer icings, acutely bi-cauclate; Antcnnie, short, gradualiy 

 thickening into a lengthened, cylindrical club, the tip nfarly 

 truncate ; Palpi, projecting, and longer above, than is the 

 head; their tips acute; their joints concealed by compact scales. 



Type, Papilio Jasius. And. 



Specific Character. 



Wings above blackish, ivith a broad, common band, and an 

 anterior spot of straw colour ; beneath, having the band 

 greenish, and margined with chesnut. 



Papilio Athamas. Cramer, PI. 89. f. C. D. 



We can communicate but little ou this elegant Butterfly, 

 of which our figures represent the female : the other sex is 

 known by having; the straw coloured band much narrower ; 

 on the under surface this colour is prismatic ; changing, in 

 some lights, to a delicate pea green. The great size and 

 thickness of the thorax, intimate a powerful and rapid flight. 

 The group is Oriental ; but one species, the beautiful and 

 rare Pap. Jasius. Lin. we have captured in the Island of 

 Sicily, the most southern part of Europe. 



As Ave have not yet completed the analysis of this family 

 of Butterflies, we know not the rank or true atlinities of the 

 present group. It is evidently either one of the lowest types 

 of form, or a sub-genus We have received both sexes 

 of these insects from Java, where the species appears to 

 be common. The resemblance of this group, to Rhetus 

 and MariuSy would seem to indicate points of strong natural 

 analogy. 



We adopt the original specific name of Cramer : for we 

 cannot, at this moment, trace the species in the voluminous 

 works of Fabricius. 



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