I’ API El 0 INDUA. Reakirt. 
PROC. ENT. SOC. PIIIL, VI. p. 123, 1866. 
Male. Expands 3 inches. 
Antennae, head and thorax black, two small yellow spots behind the eyes, sides of collar 
and pa tag he dull yellow; abdomen black with a yellow dash on each side of the anal segment. 
Upper surface black, primaries with a sub-marginal row of eight pale yellow lunate spots 
which become gradually smaller as they approach the posterior angle; also a band of nine 
larger spots of same color, extending from costa to inner margin, the second one having a black 
mark on the inner end ; disco-cellular nervules defined by a yellow line. 
Secondaries have the yellow band of the primaries continued ; this band is divided by the 
black veins into seven parts, the three nearest to the costal and the two nearest to inner margin 
are of parallelogram form, and pretty much of one size; the two remaining parts, laying be- 
tween the second sub-costal and third median vein lets are of irregular shape, extending in 
obtuse points beyond the line of the others ; along the outer margin are five yellow spots, the 
one nearest the outer angle is a mere dot ; the next, which is the largest, is oval, and the 
three remaining ones are lunate; the anal spot is large, fulvous, and encloses a black pupil; 
in the space between the inner band and sub-marginal spots is a series of clusters of blue scales, 
almost obsolete towards the costa, but becoming more distinct as they approach the interior 
margin, where the last and best defined one surmounts the anal ocellus; emarginations regular 
and pale yellow, the tail, if it deserve such a distinction, is but little more than a tooth. 
Under surface, ground color, paler, that of markings much the same as on upper surface ; 
on the primaries the sub-marginal lunules are larger than above; the inner band remains the 
same; on secondaries the markings of the upper side are also reproduced, with the addition of 
one more lunule placed between the first and second median nervules, also, the one nearest the 
outer angle, which is on the upper surface indicated by a mere yellow dot, is here advanced to 
the dignity of a respectable sized crescent, tinged in the middle with fulvous ; some greyish 
yellow scales arc in conjunction with the blue ones intermediate between the lunular and mesial 
bands. 
Of the female I am not fortunate enough to be able to say anything, for the one reason, 
that, as far as I am aware of, no examples of the sex have yet turned up ; all the specimens I 
know of being the males in the museums of the Am. Ent. Soc., W. H. Edwards and myself, 
which were taken by Mr. Ridings at Pike’s Peak, Colorado, in 1861, nor has any collector 
since been lucky enough to obtain it. 
Mr. Reakirt in his description of this species in the Proc. Ent. Soc. says: “ I cannot 
reconcile this beautiful species with Dr. Boisduval’s description of Pap. Aristor Godt.” neither 
can I nor do I think it w T as much worth the while to say so considering that Pap. Aristor 
is described as a tailed species with a band of five spots, some red, some yellow on the under 
