ENTOMOLOGY. 



PLATE LIV. 



PAPILIO PIRITHOUS 

 PIRITHOUS BUTTERFLY. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thicker towards the tip and usually terminating in a 

 kind of club : wings erect when at rest. Fly by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Wings entire, above fuscous ; band on the anterior pair, with 

 the disk of the posterior ones, and entirely beneath white, or yel- 

 lowish white. 



Papilio Pirithous : ahs integerrimis supra fuscis, anticis fascia, 

 posticis disco omnibusque subtus albis. Fahr, 

 Sijst. EnL 483. m.Spec. Ins. t. % 59. 261. 



