ENTOMOLOGY. 



* DANAI CAND. 



SPECIFIJC CHARACTEll 



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SYNONYMS. ■ ■ ■ 



Wings entire rounded yellow ; anterior pair at the tip black 

 above, beneath sanguineous brown. 



Pa^ iLio Agave : alls integerrimis rotundatis flavis : anticis apice 



supra nigris, subtus brunneis. — Fabr, Ent, Syst, 

 t.S.p.l.im.n.b99, 



This very scarce and pretty species of the Papilio tribe is an 

 inhabitant of Cayenne, and may possibly occur also in other parts of 

 South America. It was unknown to Fabricius when he published 

 the work entitled Species Insectorum ; he afterwards observed a 

 species of it in the cabinet of Von Rohr, and inserted a description 

 of it between the two species P. Hecabe and P. Cardamines in his 

 subsequent production Entomologia Systematica, 



The upper surface of this Butterfly is entirely yellow, without 

 any marks, excepting only the apex of the anterior wings, which 

 are black in that portion of the tip which appears red on the lower 

 surface, or as Fabricius terms it, somewhat erroneously brown. 



This fly, so uniformly simple in the aspect of its superiol" sur- 

 face, appears to peculiar advantage when in a resting position as it 

 is depicted in the lower part of the plate. 



