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Order. 



LEPIDOPTERA, L 



%nncev,s. 



PAPILIO ANTENOR. 



Plate XV. fig. 1. 



Tribe. Diurna, Latreille. Genus : Papilio, Linn., (Butterflies.) 

 Family. Papilionid.e, Leach. 



Genus. Papilio, Latreille. (Papiliones Equites, Linn.) 



Species. Papilio Antenor : alis dentatis concoloribus atris albo-maculatis ; posticis caudatis ; 

 disco atomis viridibus lunulisque marginalibus rubris. Expans. alar. 6 una 

 6 lin. 

 Papilio : with the wings dentate, black with many white spots, the posterior pair 

 tailed, and with the disk powdered with green atoms, the margin with red 

 lunules. Expanse of the wings 6 J? inches. 

 Stn. Papilio Antenor, Drury, Lll. Exot. Ent. vol. 2 app. pi. 3,/ 1. 2d edit. v. 2, p. 4. Fabr. 

 Ent. Syst. III. I. p. 4, No. 9. Jablonsky, Pap. 2. t. 3, Jig. 1. Boisduval Hist. 

 Nat Lepid. 1, p. 189, No. 2. Enc. M'eth. 9, 69. 

 Habitat. Tropical Africa. 



This species was originally described by Drury, from whom all subsequent writers 

 (including Donovan) have derived their descriptions and figures of this exceedingly 

 rare butterfly. Drury states that he was unaware from what country his specimen 

 was obtained. Fabricius, however, gave India as its country, on which authority, 

 apparently, Donovan introduced it into this work, observing that it might " be num- 

 bered with much propriety among the rarest of the Papilio tribe found in India." In 

 the second edition of Drury's Illustrations, I have stated the incorrectness of this 

 locality, on the authority of a specimen in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, 

 brought from tropical Africa by the late Mr. Ritchie. Had the insect moreover been 

 an inhabitant of India, it would surely have been received more frequently. No 

 specimen however, as far as I am aware, is contained in any of the continental 

 collections. 



PAPILIO ANTIPHUS. 



Plate XV. fig. 2. 



Species. Papilio Antipiius : alis concoloribus nigris, anticis ad apicem griseo radiatis, 

 posticis caudatis, lunulis septem submarginalibus rubris. Expans. alar. 3 unc. 

 3 lin. 

 Papilio : with all the wings similarly coloured, black ; the anterior paler, greyish 

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