SYNOPTIC TABLE OF LEPIDOPTERA, 



GENUS PAPILIO, Lin. 



(Continued.) 

 P. Bairdii, Edwards. Ground color black, both wings with a marginal row 

 of yellow lunules; the inner band is yellow, nearly as in Asterius; anal spot 

 orange; tails long and black. Expands four inches. Arizona. 



C. Ground color black, with blue markings. 



P. Villiersii, Bdv. Wings, ground color greenish black; primaries with a 

 submarginal row of small bluish lunular spots; secondaries with a row of very 

 large blue lunules; tails spatulate, long. Expands three and a half inches. 



Florida, Cuba. 



D. Ground color green with black markings. 



P. Sinon, Fabr. Wings ground color pale green with black markings much 

 like Ajax, but heavier; the primaries have a marginal row of irregular pale 

 green spots, and the secondaries a marginal row of lunules of the same color, 

 anal spot bright red; tails rather long and black. Expands about two and one 

 half inches. Florida, Cuba. 

 Group II. 

 P. Polydamas, Lin. Wings greenish black; primaries with a marginal row 

 of yellow lunular spots; secondaries with large yellow lunules; no tails. Ex- 

 pands about three and one half inches. Florida. Cuba. 

 The following two species are unknown to us: 

 P. Pergamus, //. Edw. 

 " Hippocrates. Felder. 



GENUS PAPvNASSrUS Latr. 



Head moderately large, palpi long and clothed with fine hairs; antennae 

 short, terminating in a stout elongated club; body thick and heavy, the ab- 

 domen of the 9 is provided with a pouch or homy valve. Wings, parchment 

 like, nerves prominent and nearly destitute of stales on the under side and 

 towards the summit of the upper side; secondaries have the abdominal edge 

 sloped, leaving the abdomen entirely free. — 



We may divide the Parnassians of North America into two groups: 



I. White with black markings — Type, P. Smintheus, Doubl. 



II. Yellow with black markings — Type, P. Eversmanni. Men. 



P. Smintheus, Doubl. $ Wings clear white; primaries with two margin- 

 al narrow zigzag bands of black, the basal area has two deep black spots and 

 two or three red spots bordered by black and sometimes connected; seconda- 

 ries with a marginal renvoi' black spots, which in some specimens are Aery in- 

 distinct, and with two red ocelli bordered by black and having sometimes a 

 white spot in the middle; body black above and white below. Expands two to 

 (wo one half inches. The 9 has the wings more transparent and more hea- 

 vily marked with black, the red spots and ocelli are also larger and more 

 prominent. Colorado. California. 



P. Clodius, Men. Somewhat larger than the above; the primaries are more 

 heavily marked with black and lack the red spots, secondaries with two red 

 ocelli bordered by black, the & has no marginal row of black spots. Expands 

 about three inches. California. 



