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PAPILIO 1. 
PAPILIO AJAX. 
Papilio Ajax , Linnaeus, Sjst. Nat. II, p. 750. Fab. Syst. Ent. p. 455. 
Var. Walshii. 
Ajax. Bois. & Lee. text, (not plate) p. 4; ibid, Spec. Gen. I, p. 258. 
Marcellus, Cramer, pi. 98. 
Sub-var. Abhotii. 
Ajax , Abbot, Ins. Ga. pi. 4., 
Ajax, Felder, Spec. Lepid. p. 15. 
Var. Telamonides, Felder, Zool. Novara Exped.; ibid, Spec. Lepid. p. 15. 
Ajax, Godart, Enc. Meth. IX, p. 53. Bois. & Lee. pi. 1, (not text). 
Var. Marcellus, Boisduval. Bois. & Lee. p. 8, pi. 2; ibid. Spec. Gen. 1, p. 257. Felder, Spec. 
Lepid. p. 15. 
Ajax, Esper, Eur. Schmett. 1, pi. 51. Hiibner, Exot. Samml. Schmett. 
AJAX.— Vae, WALSHII. 
Primaries broad, but little produced apically ; costa moderately arcbed ; bind 
margin in male concave, in female convex ; tail short, narrow ; tborax covered 
with long hairs ; frontal hairs long and bristling. 
Male. — E xpands from 2.6 to 2.8 inches. 
Upper side pale black, marked and banded with greenish-yellow ; the hind 
margin broadly edged with black which is much advanced on costa of primaries 
and encloses a yellow band, divided by the nervures into spots that posteriorly 
are lunate ; on the costa a yellow spot and a stripe that reaches from costal edge 
to inferior corner of cell ; preceding this is a broad common yellow band that termi- 
nates on middle of secondaries and encloses on costal margin of primaries a variable 
black stripe, bar or spot, often nearly obsolete ; next, a black baxid bifid on costa and 
enclosing there a yellow stripe ; and a second yellow band, narrow, terminating at 
a point below the first ; bases of both wings and abdominal margin of secondaries 
black ; on primaries a yellow streak quite at base. 
Secondaries regularly dentated, the excavations fringed with pale yellow; 
tails of moderate length, straight, varying in width in individuals, often very 
narrow, black, tipped only with pale yellow and slightly edged with same color at 
base on either side; along hind margin four whitish lunules; near angle two lunu- 
lar clusters of blue scales on the black ground, above the hindmost of which is a 
