NATURAL HISTORY 



O F 



RITISH INSECTS, 



PLATE CIX, 



PAPILIO PODALIRIUg, 



Scarce Swallowtail, 

 butterfly. 



lepidoptera. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER, 

 Antenna clavated. Wings when at reft ere&. Fly by day. 

 SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



Above pale yellow, beneath paler. On the firft wings (upper fide) 

 Ix pale black ftripes and a black margin. On the fecond wings, 

 m oblique black fcripe, and a black border with five femilunar blue 

 pots, two long tails. Stripes more numerous on the under fide. 



Papilio Podalirius, alis caudatis fubconcoloribus flaves centibus* 

 afciis fufcis geminatis, pofticis fubtus linea fanguinea. 



Syji. Ent. 451. 3B. 

 Linn. Syji. Nat. 2. 751. 36; 

 Muf Lud, Fir. 208. 

 B 2 Papiiie 



