100 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



anal excavation has a grayish tint; in the female the whole surface is uniformly dark brown in 

 both pair: underneath, alike in both sexes, brown with a glaucous tint, the surface being also 

 marked with a few clouds inclining to a purple colour ; an irregularly arched and flexuose 

 streak, consisting of delicate lunules in close succession, passes through both pair ; in the 

 anterior pair it commences at the same distance from the costa and the inner margin, and after 

 a short curve at each extremity forms a large arch in the middle area tending towards the pos- 

 terior margin, in the hinder it winds over the surface in a serpentine course, and the lunules are 

 individually edged externally with pale sulphureous yellow ; the anterior wings have further two 

 short transverse liturae in the middle area before the disk, three obsolete marginal dots near the 

 medial portion of the costa, and finally a row of dots parallel with the posterior margin ; the 

 hinder wings have, near the base, a lunule edged with yellow and an obsolete waving litura 

 disposed in succession as a striga, then, behind the curved medial striga, a series parallel with 

 the posterior margin, commencing at the outer apical angle with four or five successive obsolete 

 dots, followed by as many lunules edged with yellow and continued in a flexuose direction to 

 the inner angle, and finally, at the anal termination of the wing, three semilunar marks, faintly 

 dotted with yellow, extending from the outer tail to the inner edge of the anal appendage. The 

 body is brown above and gray underneath, and the antennae have a brown tint to the ferruginous 

 tip, the rings having a very faint grayish discoloration : the inner tail, which exceeds the other 

 in length, is brown with a grayish tip. 



This species differs from the former, as well as from the following, in the anal appendage and in the tails, 

 and on the indications afforded by these, minor subdivisions have been proposed which remain to be con- 

 firmed by the Lepidoptera of other countries. Our specimens are four males and one female. As far as I 

 have been able to observe, the anterior foot of the male is without claw and abruptly terminated by a vertical 

 surface, agreeing with the character assigned to this subgenus. 



ttt Caudis tribus, intermedio elongate, lateralibus minimis dentiformibus : appendiculo anali brevi. 

 32. Amblypodia Apidanus. Ala supra maris omnes pagind totd saturate" purpurea, vel in certa 

 luce cyaneo resplendentes, limbis angustissimis nigris, posticarum in regione anali subundulatis, 

 canali abdomen excipiente cinerascente ; fceminte fuscce plagd maxima cyaned, vel alio aspectu 

 thalassino-argenteo nitente, de basi ultra medium extensd, limitibus singidis marginibus paral- 

 lelis: suhtus fusees canescente fasciatcc, margaritacece, anticarum apicibus posticarum pagind 

 feri totd nitore violaceo lavatis ; singula ad basin tmnid costali saturate' puniced oblongd attenu- 

 atd; antica fasciis tribus cinerascentibus, anteriore dimidiatd vel in forma stigmatis abrupti 

 abbreviatd, alterd pone medium sitd, tertid submarginali, his in area anali cinerascente evanes- 

 centibus; posticce basi totd saturate" fusca, tunc plagd latissimd transversa cinerascente violaceo 

 lavatd fascid insigni fused cano-limbatd fretd, in area costali simplici lata in mediana et 

 anali autem ex seriebus duabus oppositis efformatd, anteriore intemptd alterd continud fascii 

 posterior nigricante confluente et una cum ilia in arcum per paginam Mum ducta ; denigue intra 

 margmem posticum strigd nigricante flexuosa cano-limbatd, maculisque duabus distant^ 

 subocellanbus maris intus albo irroratis rarius punctis paucis inauratis omatis. (Exp alar 

 I una 5 — 10 lin.) v • t" • 



Papilio P. R. Apidanus. Fab. Mant. Ins. torn. 2. p. 69. No. 658 

 Papilio Apidanus. Cram. pi. 137. fig. F. G. (the male.) 



Papilio 



