THE ATYMNUS BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Atymnus. 
PLATE YI. 
Papilio P. R. Atymnus, Fab, Mant. Ins. tom. ii. p. 70, 
No, 662.—Myrina Atymnus, MM. Latreille and Geoff- 
roy, Ency. Meth. Hist. Nat. ix. p. 574. 
THE wings above, are fulyous in both sexes, 
varying in intensity of tint in different individuals, 
from high toned orange, to pale saffron yellow ; the 
anterior, with the exterior borders, blackish brown, 
the intermediate boundary being regular, and pass- 
ing in an arch from the middle of the costa to 
the inner apical angle, leaving the greatest breadth 
at the tip; posterior, with a narrower and paler 
apical border, whose inner edge is slightly dentate, 
and gradually diffused in the ground colour of the 
surface, or entirely covered with a diluted yellowish 
tint ; the inner margin is dirty grayish and downy, 
lengthened in the direction of the anal appendage, 
which is ixrorated with dusky white ; underneath, 
it is covered with a yellow ochraceous pulverulent 
tint, which is uniformly diffused over the whole 
surface, marked with four brownish parallel strigee, 
the two interior ones being very obsolete, and appa- 
rent only in fresh and well conditioned specimens ; 
