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THE HECKUBA BUTTERFLY, 
Papilio Heckuba. 
PLATE VII. 
Papilio Heckuba, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pl. 167.—Gmelin’s 
Linnaeus Systema Nature, p. 2247. 
THE upper wings are of a very rich ferruginous 
red colour; on the anterior margin there is an 
acutely triangular mark, extending from the inser- 
tion of the wing, nearly two-thirds across it, widen- 
ing as it extends outwards, and of a deep sangui- 
nous red, with dusky scalloped edges, and a double 
border of crescent-shaped, deep straw coloured 
spots; the lower wings are black, of an ochre 
yellow towards their base ; they are considerably 
more indented than the upper ones, and provided 
with a double border of oblong ovate deep straw 
coloured spots, those next the edge of the wings 
being set in pairs; the body is blackish gray, some- 
what ochre coloured above ; the whole under sur- 
face of the wings is undulated with different shades 
of brown, black, gray, and rust colour, and marked 
by several eyelike spots, or annulets of similar 
colours. 
