FAMILY PAPIUONIDJE. 201 



Papilio philf.nor (Fabrieius). P. astinous ( Drury). 



Mead, thorax and abdomen black ; the breast marked with two rows of yellowish dots : 

 antennae and eyes brown or brownish black. Liter side : Forewings black with a 

 green lustre; apical area brownish; outer margin marked with five s]ots,and edge 

 trimmed with black ami white : hindwiugs polished green, silky, darker at the base ; 

 posterior margin marked with live white lunules ; anal angle excavated and edged 

 with white ; tail rounded, its angles trimmed with black and white, the cien^e being 

 white. Under side : Forewings black ; apical area olive ; margin marked with five 

 yellowish spots; edge black and yellowish white : hindwings highly polished, green 

 and lustrous, with the outer and inner margins marked with large fuscous spots sur- 

 rounded with a velvety black ring, with a single spot of yellowish white on the outer 

 side ; edge trimmed with black and yellowish white ; tail dilated. Legs and feet black. 



Papilio turnus ( Linnaus). P. alcidAmas (Cramer). ( Plate xxxviii, fig. 3v) 



Antenna? black : body black above, marked with a yellow stripe beginning at the neck, 

 and passing over the insertion of the wings and along the sides of the abdomen ; sides 

 of the breast striped with yellow ; palpi yellow. Upper side : Wings yellow, marked 

 by five subcostal bands : the first is a marginal one, extending from the shoulder to 

 a yellow lunule at the anal angle ; the second extends as far, but grows thinner and 

 terminates in a point, and the other three are abbreviated and confined to the fore- 

 wing : costal edge black. The outer marginal band Is wide, black, and common to 

 both pair of wings, and is ornamented with six lunules, larger and mere perfect in the 

 hind- than in the forewings, the first and last fulvous. Hindwings scollcpped and 

 tailed : tail rather long and narrow ; anal angle iulvous, edged with white, and 

 ornamented with three lunules, yellow, black and blue, and a ferruginous one below. 

 The hindwing edges are trimmed with yellow ; the forewings with white. Beneath, 

 the yellow is pale ; the subcostal bands are less black and velvety, and bordered with 

 greenish. Outer margin, the edge is black : there is a dusky yellow band, succeeded 

 by a broader and more dusky one, showing greenish yellow, and bounded on the 

 inside with a strong black line of scollops. Hindwings, the edge is yellow, succeeded 

 by black and yellow lunules : the black line within is bordered with blue. Expanse 

 of wing four inches. Length from the head to the extremity of the tail, 2\ inches. 

 This is one of our common butterflies, and resembles the Machaon of Europe, but its 



markings and form are more like those of the Podalirius. Its larvse are not known as 



injurious to the cultivated vegetables. 



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