PAPILIO. 



6. P. troilus Linn. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 10. Sm. Abb. vol. I, pi. 2. Cram. 



Pap. Exot. pi. 207. Herbst, pi. 17 (mas.) pi. 20 (foem.). Drury, 

 I, pi. 2. Lucas Hist. Nat. des Pap. Exot., pi. 19. P. ilioneus, 

 Sm. Abb. 



Wings blackish, dentate, emarginations yellowish white. Prima- 

 ries, with a range of seven or eight spots of pale yellow on the 

 outer margin, gradually decreasing in size upwards. Secondaries, 

 with a marginal range of seven greenish lunules, the upper one, 

 orange yellow. Above these, a wide bluish gray band divided by 

 the nervures. The lunule of the anal angle, is orange yellow inside 

 greenish gray outside, tail black. 



Under side of primaries, deep brown, two marginal series of yel- 

 low spots, besides one or two towards the upper edge. 



Under side of secondaries, has two series of rufous lunules, sepa- 

 rated by a band of bluish atoms ; anal spot rufous. 



Body black, with yellow spots on the thorax and a line of yellow 

 points on each side. Expands three inches. 



Larva green, with a yellow marginal band; two series of blue 

 points on the sides and in the fourth segment two carneous spots, 

 on the third, a carneous ocellated spot, pupilled with deep blue, 

 on the first, a black band ; the under side ferruginous, at the base 

 of the membranaceous feet, a series of seven blue points. Feeds 

 on Laurus sassafras and other species of Laurus. 



Chrysalis a little gibbous, pale ferruginous striated with a deeper 

 tint. 



Boisd. 



7. P. asterias Fab. Sm. Abb. I, pi. 1. Cram. Pap. pi. 385. Boisd. et 



Lee., pi. 4. Lucas Hist. Nat. des Pap. Exot. pi. 20. Haldeman, in 

 Stansbury's Expl. p. 366. P. troilus, Sm. Abb. 



Wings deep blackish brown, with two macular pale yellow bands ; 

 the first, composed of eight spots, nearly triangular, traversing the 

 middle of the secondaries ; the second is marginal, and the spots 

 are smaller, eight or nine of which are on the primaries and six 

 on the secondaries, mostly lunular. Besides these, the primaries 

 have one or two spots toward the upper margin, and the second- 

 aries, six or seven blue lunules between the spots. At the anal 

 angle, a rufous spot, with a black point — emargination yellowish- 

 tail black. 



