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PAPILIO MEMNON. 
PLATE II. Fig. 1 . 
Linn. Fubr. Cramer, .01, C. — Papilio A gcnor, Linn. Fair. 
Cramer , 32, A, B. 
The upper wings in this species expand about five 
inches ; they are blackish and marked with numer- 
ous longitudinal rays of a greyish-ash colour, each 
of them having a large blood-red or oclirey-yellow 
triangular patch at the base. The inferior wings 
are waved on the hinder margin, and narrowly edged 
with white in the cmarginations, the disk almost 
entirely occupied by a broad white band divided by 
the dark nervures, the hinder portion dusky with a 
series of deep-hlaclc spots of an ovate or rounded 
form, that placed on the anal angle smaller than the 
rest and encircled with fulvous, which colour ex- 
tends to the extremity of the internal border ; on 
the under side they arc spotted with red or ochre- 
yellow at the base : body black, the prothorax 
marked with several white points. 
The above description applies to one of the fe- 
male varieties of P. Memnon, which was usually 
regarded as a distinct species and known by the 
name of Agenor. Indeed it is so unlike the male, 
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