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PAPILIO DAUXUS. 
is rare and difficult to capture, owing to its high flight and the almost inaccessible nature of its 
haunts. 
Friend Sachs, of New York, added another to the numberless favors already conferred by 
loaning me from his collection the original of the cf figures for the purpose of illustrating the 
accompanying plate ; the ? is from one of a number which I received from Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
PAPILIO ZOLICAON. Boisduvat,. 
Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., p. 281. (1852.) 
P. Zelicaon, Luca?, Rev. Zool., p. 136. (1852.) 
P. Machaon, var. Cali/ornica, Menetries, Cat. Mu?. Petr. Lep. I, p. 69. (1855.) 
(PLATE VI, FIG. 3 ?.) 
Male axd Female. Expands 3 to 34 inches. 
An ten me black ; head and thorax black with two yellow lines; abdomen black with a 
lateral yellow baud. 
Upper surface rich yellow, primaries with a large black basal patch, between which and 
the disco-cellular veins is a broad black band, extending from costa to median vein, another 
covers the disco-cellular veins and reaches to the fourth radial vein, beyond this, between the 
costa and fourth sub-costal vcinlet, is a black dash, immediately below this and joining it is a 
round spot ; a black marginal baud, containing a row of yellow spots, round near the outer 
angle, and becoming lunate as they approach the inner, the one nearest to which is geminate; 
nervures defined with black. 
Secondaries, abdominal margin black ; discal arc, as well as the veins, black ; a very 
broad black marginal band; sub-marginal lunules yellow, above these, within the marginal 
band, a row of shining blue crescents; anal eye large, red, edged below with yellow and 
pupillcd with black ; tails same as in P. Machaon and kindred species ; emarginations yellow. 
Under surface paler; primaries marked much as above. Secondaries, interior to the 
sub-marginal lunules, a band of greyish yellow edged with blue ; adjoining the marginal 
band the wing is tinged with fulvous. 
Habitat. California, Oregon, Vancouver’s Island. 
Although bearing a striking resemblance to P. Machaon, and particularly to its variety 
Spbyrus*, I believe this to be a distinct species, especially as the true P. Machaon is found in 
the northern parts of our possessions and in British America ; but even this Mr. Scudder con- 
siders distinct from the typical P. Machaon, and has named it P. Aliaskaf, but I do not think 
on sufficient grounds, as, after a rigid comparison, I do no + find it to differ from the European 
types more than do examples from the Himalayas, China, Turkey, &c., which is very little, 
indeed. 
"Hubner, Samml. Exot. Schmett., f. 775, 776. (1818-1827.) 
f Scudder, Ent. Votes, II, p. 45. (1S69.) 
