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THE APOLLO BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio Apollo. 
PLATE XXXIX, 
Papilio Apollo, Linn. F. See. 1032. — Haworth’s Lep. 
Brit. i. p. 29.—Donovan’s Brit. Ins. pl. 433. 
THE wings are slightly indented, of a fine pale 
straw colour; the upper ones having large black 
spots, with a macular band of semilunate clusters 
of dots, which also extend over the under wings ; the 
lower ones have four large annulets of bright scarlet, 
white in the centre, and surrounded by black, with 
a brown double lunated spot towards their inner 
margin ; the body is black above, and brown be- 
neath ; the annulets are the same below as above ; 
and there are a row of four large scarlet spots on 
each side of the body ; and a double sesquialterous 
scarlet spot, with a white one in its centre. 
The Papilio Apollo is the offspring of a solitary 
sluggish larva, of a black colour, covered with a soft 
silky down. All the wings are marked on both sides 
with two red spots, which together constitute a lon- 
gitudinal series along each side. Besides these spots, 
every segment is marked nearer the middle of the 
back with three small lateral dots of a bluish colour, 
disposed in a semilunar manner, and thus forming 
