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THE ORIENTAL EMPEROR. 
Papilio Ripheus.—Cuina. 
PLATE LY, 
Papilio Ripheus, Gmelin’s Linneus, 2235,—Fabr, Mant. 
Ins. p. 6, n. 43.—Cramer, Pap. 33, t. 385. f. a. 3. 
Tue superior wings are golden green, paler to- 
wards their interior margins, and clouded with large 
longitudinal patches of black. The colour deepens 
to a brilliant yerdigris green, as it approaches the 
exterior margin. Inferior wings golden green, ver- 
digris green at their anal margin, and with large 
clouds of black. Near the centre, in each, is a large 
undefined spot of deep carmine, with two black spots 
in the middle. Each of these wings is furnished 
with three acute points, and three caudate wings. 
The body is quite black ; the antenne are subulate. 
When extended, this butterfly measures, from the 
tip of each wing, five inches and a quarter. 
The caterpillar of this species is unknown ; but, 
in all probability, it bears a strong resemblance to 
that of the Papilio leilas, which has been figured in 
Madam Merian’s Surinam Insects. 
Besides the extreme rarity of this species, it may 
he reckoned the most beautiful of this splendid tribe. 
Tt is a native of China, and various other places of 
the East. 
