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Under side of primaries, shining, blackish bronze to the middle, 

 with an arc of white spots at the end of the discoidal cellule, and 

 a marginal range of silver white triangular spots. 



Under side of secondaries, brown, with the origin of the base 

 and outer border, yellowish white ; in the middle, three large, sil- 

 ver spots. Towards the edge, a range of five to seven silver spots, 

 separated from the external border by a black zigzag line, sur- 

 mounted by ferruginous crescents, reposing on a deep bronze 

 ground. 



Body black bronze, with white points on the prothorax, breast 

 and sides of the abdomen. Southern States. 



Boisd. 



18. P. polydamas Linn. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 15. Cram. Pap. pi. 211. 

 Drury I, pi. 17. Herbst, pi. 10. Seba Mus. p. 39. Merian, Surin. 

 pi. 31. Lucas Hist. Nat. des Pap. Exc-t. pi. 17. 



Size of P. asterias. Wings greenish black, traversed towards the 

 extremity by a band of yellow more or less pale, of moderate width, 

 somewhat macular; formed, on the primaries, of cuneiform, point- 

 ed spots, and on the secondaries, of cuneiform, truncated spots. 

 The primaries sinuate, slightly dentate; the secondaries dentate. 

 Emarginations yellow. 



Under side brown ; that of the primaries more clear towards 

 the base, with the same markings as above ; that of the seconda- 

 ries is more obscure towards the extremity, with a marginal 

 range of seven reddish brown spots, linear, transverse, a little flex- 

 uous, of which the three outer are usually bordered with silver 

 white. At the base, there is also a reddish spot. 



Body black, the prothorax, the sides of the breast, and of the ab- 

 domen, with rufous spots or streaks. 



Georgia. 



Larva which lives on Arisiolochia, is brown, with fleshy spines 

 of the same color ; the body radiated with red and each segment 

 having, besides, four ocellated spots, half yellow, half red. 



Boisd. 



PARNASSIUS Latr. 

 Head rather small ; eyes not prominent : palpi longer than the 

 head, elevated beyond the front, furnished with long and fine hairs, 

 and composed of three distinct, equal articles ; the first arcuate, 



