PAPILIO COPAN AE. Keakirt. 
Proc. Ent. Soe., Phil., Vol. II, p. 141, (1863). 
Kirby, Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 521, (1871). 
(PLATE VIII, FIG. 1, ?.) 
Female. Expands 4^ inches. 
Antennae and head black ; thorax black, spotted with yellow on the sides. Abdomen dark shining green 
above, black on the sides and beneath, three rows of yellow streaks on each side, and two rows of white spots 
and one of yellow streaks below. 
Upper surface; primaries blackish brown, the basal and interior part glossed with shining green which 
changes in depth and shade in different lights ; five sub marginal yellow, dart-shaped dashes, the first, 
between the discoidal nervules, is almost obsolete, the second is the lai’gest, extending almost to the discoidal 
cell, the one nearest the anal angle is double; a narrow yellow dash on edge of costa. 
Secondaries blackish brown, with green reflection much more noticeable than on primaries ; a mesial band 
of seven yellow spots, the one nearest the anal angle composed of a few atoms, the next large and rhomboidal 
in shape, the succeeding four larger and more or less oval, the seventh extends from the first sub-costal 
nervule to the costa, and is concave on both outer and inner edges; a row of indistinct marginal lunules; 
exterior margin dentate, with yellow emarginations. 
Undersurface; primaries, basal half blackish brown, disk pale brown; four of the spots of the upper 
surface reproduced and more distinct, but not so yellow ; the largest of these spots extends into the discoidal 
cell. 
Secondaries shining brown, varying in shade in different positions; a marginal row of red spots bordered 
narrowly with black, and, as the original description very aptly says, “resembling chevrons in form.” 
The male I have never seen, nor do I know if it be at all known. 
Habitat. Guatamala. 
The type from which the above description and accompanying figures were taken, came from near Copan, 
and is in my cabinet ; the only other example I know of is in the Mus. of the Am. Ent. Soc. 
This species differs entirely from the others of its group,* in the number and arrangement of the lateral 
and ventral rows of streaks (spots we can scarcely call them, as they are parallelogramic in form,) on the abdo- 
men, of which there are in all nine, one yellow and two white below, and three yellow on each side. 
We have such poor facilities in this country for properly studying the exotic species, that it was a bold 
venture of Mr. Keakirt to describe this as new, especially as it belongs to a group so replete with varieties; 
nevertheless, I have a strong conviction that it will not share the fate of so many of that author’s species. It 
is here truthfully figured and coloured from the type, and those abroad who have the advantages of larger 
material for comparison, can pronounce their verdict as to its genuineness. 
In remarks at the close of mv friend Reakirt’s original description, he must have been carried away a 
little by his enthusiasm, when he said “the lustrous brilliancy of its upper surface is alone surpassed by the 
Morphidfe.” I can only see that its lustrous brilliancy exceeds a little that of P. Polydamus, and is not equal 
to that of P. Latinus. 
PIER1S NAPI , Linnaeus. 
Napi, Linnaeus, ( Papilio N.) Faun. Suec., p. 271, n. 1037, (1761); Syst. Nat. I, 2, p. 760, (1767). Sebci, 
Rer. Nat. Thes., Vol. IV, t. 2, (1765). Esper, Schmett., Vol. I, 1. t. 3, (1777). 
Hubner, Eur. Schmett., Vol. I, f. 406, 407, (1798-1803). 
Pieris Napi, Godart, Enc. Meth., Vol. IX, p. 161, (1819). Boisduval, Sp. Gen. 1, p. 518, (1836). 
Staudinger, Cat. Lep. Eur. I, p. 3, (Jan., 1871). Kirby , Cat. Diurnal Lep., p. 453, 
(March, 1871). 
*Such as composed HubneFs genus Ithobalus, viz. : P. Hyperion, Hub., P. Polydamus, L., P. Crassus, Cram., &c. 
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