C L Y T I A dissimiles, 



Idea- likeness Butterfly . 



Family Papilionidae. Sub-fam. Papilionse. Genus Clytia. 



Generic Character. 



Wings rounded, spotted. Anterior broad, ample, the posterior and 

 the external margins of equal length : posterior slightly undu- 

 lated at the margin, but destitute of tails. Pupa braced, with 

 the head upwards. 



Tytes. Pap. Clytia. dissimiles. L. Pap. Macarius. Godart. P. 



Panope CV. 



Specific Character. 



U ings black, the interstices of the nerves pale fulvous white, 

 broken into numerous stripes and spots, inferior wings with 

 a marginal row of orange spots, surmounted by pale lunules, 

 on a black border. 



Papilio dissimilis Linn. Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 1. p. 38. Ency. Meth. 1. 

 p. 76. Cramer. PI. 82. c. n. Reamer. Gen. Ins. pi, 1 8. f 6. 



We have never seen specimens of this Butterfly from any 

 other country than China, although it appears that General 

 liardwicke lias met with it in British India, and has 

 communicated a valuable drawing* of the larva and pupa to 

 Dr. Horsfield, in whose interesting" work it is engraved. 

 To tlmt plate we must refer the entomologist who wishes 

 to understand the previous states of this insect; while its 

 general aspect at once intimates its resemblance or analogy 

 to tlie Sub-genus Idea F, and consequently points it 

 out as the generic type of that form in the circle of the 

 Papilio me. According to these views, Clytia is united to 

 Awphrysius, by the sub-genus Epius ; (Pap. Epius. Auct.) 

 and at the same time forms the generic passage to the 

 Pieridse. Sw. For want of abetter term, we must call this 

 the Rasoriul type, as it corresponds to that Ornithological 

 group. 



The aberrant group of the Sub-family Papilionie appear 

 to he the genera Leilus, Sw. (Uranea Lat J Antimachus. 

 Sw. and Clytia Sw. the two typical genera being Papilio 

 and Amphrisius, Sw. 



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