Genus XLIII. PAPILIO. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antenna thickening towards the extremity, com- 

 monly ending in a knob, or club. Wings 

 when at rest erect, meeting upwards, and 

 touching above the body. Flight diurnal. 



General Observations. 



The sections into which Linnaeus has divided 

 this numerous tribe of insects are as follows : 



1 . Equites. With the upper wings longer from 

 their hinder corner to their anterior extre- 

 mity, than from the same point to their base. 

 Their antennae are frequently filiform. 

 The Equites are either 



a. Troes, or Trojans ; black with bloody 



spots on the breast, or 

 /3. Achivi, Greeks, without the red marks, 

 but often with an eye-shaped spot on 

 the inner angle of the lower wings. 

 £. Heliconii. With the wings narrow and en- 

 tire, sometimes naked, especially towards the 



