ENTOMOLOGY. 



PLATE XCVII. 



PAPILIO TIMON 

 TIMON BUTTERFLY 



Lepidoptera. 



generic character. 



Antennae thicker towards the tip and generally terminating in 

 a knob : wings erect when at rest. Fly by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



Wings three tailed, at the base greenish, beneath white with an 

 abbreviated blood red band on the posterior ones. 



Hesperia Timon : ahs tricaudatis basi virescentibus, subtus albis ; 



posticis fascia abbreviata sanguinea. Fdbr. Ent. 

 Sijst. T,l. p. % 260. n, 9. 



Papilio Timon is another of those choice examples of the Papilio 

 tribe, for the description of which we are indebted solely to Fabricius, 

 and for the illustration of the species to the inestimable drawings of 



