AJAX. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenn(se thickening towards the end, and gene* 
rally terminating in a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at rest) meeting upwards. Flight 
diurnal. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, k3'c. 
Butterfly with yellowish-white tailed wings, 
marked in a similar manner on both sur- 
faces with double black bands ; the lower 
pair marked beneath and at the inner tips 
by a broken red stripe^ 
The Black-Barred Swallow-Tail Butterfly. 
Abbots N. American Insects^ pi. 4. 
P.Marcellus. CramerFap, pi. 89. f. g. h. 
Edwards^ pL 34. 
This insect is an inhabitant of Georgia and Virgi- 
nia ; the caterpillar feeding principally on the leaves of 
the Annona palustris of Linnseus^ or Swamp Papaw. 
