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THALIURA RHIPI-IEUS. 
PLATE XXVIII. 
Pup. E. A. Rliipheus, Fair. — Pap. Rhipheus, Cramer, PI. 385, 
fig. A, B — Boisduval, Nouvel. Annul, du Museum, d’Uis. 
Nat. p. 260, PI. 8, fig. I, 2. 
This magnificent species is usually about tbe size of 
Papilio Machaon , but sometimes it is a good deal 
larger. The surface is a deep velvet-black ; the up- 
per wings with numerous transverse lines and stripes 
of beautiful golden-green, and a broad band of the 
same colour near the middle deeply cleft anteriorly : 
this band is likewise continued across the under 
wings in the direction of the anal angle, but a large 
space on the latter is brilliant coppery-red with a 
violet reflection, and marked with four or five black 
spots ; besides this there is another green band near 
the external margin, the outer edge as well as the 
tails firinged with hairs : the tails are three in number, 
that most remote from the anal angle longer than 
the others. On the under side of the superior 
wings the green bands are dilated so as to occupy 
greater part of the surface ; the same side of the in- 
ferior pair is gilded green at the base and extremity ; 
the whole anal region bright flame colour inclining 
to purple, with a changeable lustre, prolonged to 
