THE DIOMEDES BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Diomedes, 
PLATE VIII. 
Papilio Diomedes, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pl. 296.—Cramer's 
Deser, des Pap, pl. 122, fig —Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 
749.—Gmelin’s Linné, pl. 2236. 
Tue wings above, of this butterfly, are black, 
having their dise unequally radiated with blue, 
with a large round spot of black on the centre of 
the upper wings, and their edges with a border of 
equidistant white spots; the lower wings with a 
margin of crescent-shaped white spots, and each 
provided with a subcaudal black appendage ; the 
internal margins of both wings with a tinge of 
yellowish green; the body is short, of a reddish 
brown, and the eyes are red. 
The Diomedes butterfly is one of the larger 
species, and measures five inches and a half from 
the tip of one wing to that of the other. 
This insect is a native of China. 
