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PAPILIO MEMNON. 



PLATE II. Fig. 1. 



Linn. Fabr. Cramer, 91, C Papilio Agenor, Linn. Fabr. 



Cramer, 32, A, B. 



The upper wings in this species expand about five 

 inches ; they are blackish and marked with numer- 

 ous longitudinal rays of a greyish-ash colour, each 

 of them having a large blood-red or ochrey-yellow 

 triangular patch at the base. The inferior wings 

 are waved on the hinder margin, and narrowly edged 

 with white in the emarginations, the disk almost 

 entirely occupied by a broad white band divided by 

 the dark nervures, the hinder portion dusky with a 

 series of deep-black spots of an ovate or rounded 

 form, that placed on the anal angle smaller than the 

 rest and encircled with fulvous, which colour ex- 

 tends to the extremity of the internal border ; on 

 the under side they are spotted with red or ochre- 

 yellow at the base : body black, the prothorax 

 marked with several white points. 



The above description applies to one of the fe- 

 male varieties of P. Memnon^ which was usually 

 regarded as a distinct species and known by the 

 name of Agenor. Indeed it is so unlike the male, 

 vol. xxxi. a 



