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9. P. chalcas Fab. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 5. Herbst, pi. 62 ; Drur. I, pi. 



19. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 93. P. palamedes Drur. Cr. 



Wings olive black, traversed by an interrupted, pale yellow 

 band, continued over the secondaries, formed of triangular spots 

 in the primaries — a yellow spot near the upper edge and nearer 

 the base, a short, yellow, narrow line. Towards the outer edge, a 

 marginal range of roundish, yellow lunules ; anal angle, with a 

 bluish crescent ; a little dusty yellow between the base and the mar- 

 ginal points. Emarginations, yellow. Tail black, with a yellowish 

 ray in the middle. 



Under side of primaries, paler ; near the base, a transverse line 

 of grayish atoms.. 



Under side of secondaries is traversed by a rufous line. The 

 transverse band, macular, whitish within, rufous without. The 

 marginal lunules are whitish — the middle rufous, and the interval 

 sprinkled with yellowish dust; a band, also, of blue crescents. 



Body black ; a yellow line on each side of the thorax and abdo- 

 men. 



Southern States. — Expands four and a half inches. 



Larva green, punctured with pale blue ; under size and feet, car- 

 neous ; head, yellow, ferruginous with a black arc ; the third segment 

 has a lateral, carneous eyelet with a blue pupil, surmounted with a 

 blue point. The fourth has a lateral, carneous spot. The green is se- 

 parated from the reddish, by a marginal, yellow line. Feeds on 

 Laurus. 



Chrysalis, uneven, or humpbacked; ferruginous on the back, 



roseous beneath and four ranges of small bluish points. 



Boisd. 



10. P. thoas Linn. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 12. Cram. Pap. Exot. pi. 167. 



Drur. pi. 22. Herbst, pi. 39. Lucas, Hist. Nat. des Pap. Exot. pi. 

 15. P. cresphontes Cram. P. oxitus Hbnr. 



Wings deep black above, traversed by a yellow macular band, 

 extending across the base of the secondaries. The third spot is 

 oblong, surmounted by two or three others. The primaries have 

 besides, four yellow lunules near the inner angle. 



The secondaries have a curved series of six or seven yellow lu- 

 nules ; the anal angle has a rufous crescent with a group of blue 

 atoms above it ; dentate and the emarginations of both, yellow. 



Tail black, with an oval yellow spot. 



