PAPILIO PARIS. 
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distinct, it may ultimately prove to be a mere local 
variety. Godart confounds three species, conceiving 
that P. Bianor was the female of P. Paris, and 
P. Arjuna a variety. * The extension of the wings 
in P. Paris is about four inches ; the surface dark- 
brown, powdered with particles of golden-green, 
which are condensed into two or three spots near 
the extremity of the inner border of the upper wings : 
the under wings have, towards the middle, a large 
patch of very brilliant azure-blue, sinuated poste- 
riorly, where it is on a line with a series of spots 
formed by the union or condensation of the minute 
golden atoms ; the anal angle with an ocellated spot 
having a red iris surmounted by a very narrow violet 
arc : tail black : under side brown, sprinkled w ith 
grey particles, which are so condensed towards the 
apex of the upper wings as to form a hroad trans- 
verse band, interrupted by dark nervures : under 
wings with a posterior row of seven ocelliform spots, 
dark in the centre and having a yellowish-red iris, 
divided anteriorly by a slender violet arc : body black, 
powdered with particles, in the same manner as the 
wings. 
The female differs only in the ground colour being 
a little darker, and in having a transverse ray of 
condensed particles, which reaches from the internal 
border nearly to the middle. 
The caterpillar is probably very similar to that of 
P. Arjuna, described by Dr. Horsfield. + 
* Eneyclop. Metliodique, Art. Papillon , p. 67. No. 116. 
+ Dcscrip. Catal. of Lepid. of Indian Company, pi. i. fig. 14. 
