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PAPILIONID^E. 
only specimens I have seen are in the British Museum (Hewitson 
Collection). PI. IV., 3. 
Laeva unknown. 
4. P, Mnemosyne, Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 269 ; Hiib. 398. 
Expands 1-93 to 2-50 in. Wings white and semitransparent, 
the nervures black ; bases of all the wings blackish. The fore wings 
have two black spots in the discoidal cell, and the apices are darker 
and more transparent than the rest of the wing. The hind wings 
have a dusky lozenge-shaped spot in the centre immediately below 
the discoidal cell. The wings are entirely without red spots either 
above or beneath. The female has a very large and horny abdominal 
pouch, convex in shape and of a light yellow colour. The head, 
thorax, and abdomen are black, the latter strongly marked laterally 
with bright yellow. PI. IV., 4. 
Times of Appeakance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — High mountain gorges in Switzerland, the 
Pyrenees, Sweden, Hungary, Sicily, Eussia, and Western Asia. 
A local insect, occurring at considerable elevations, even as high 
as 8000 feet. 
Larva. — Smoky black, the spaces between the segments being 
darker ; on every segment are two reddish yellow spots. The legs 
are black. Feeds on Corydalis Halleri. Appears in April and May. 
PI. V., 7. 
The Pupa much resembles that of P. Apollo, spinning up 
between leaves. 
OTHER SPECIES OF PAPILIONIDM INCLUDED IN 
STAUDIN GEE’S CATALOGUE, &c. 
Genus PAPILJO. 
r. Vm/atas, Butler, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1865, p. 430. — It is 
close to P. Podalirius, but wdiiter, and the tails of the hind wings 
are much longer. Inhabits Syria. 
r. Xutlnis, Linn. Syst. Nat. xii. 751; Cr. 73 a; H.-S. 411, 
413. — Expands 3 to 3-60 in, A large black and yellow butterfly. 
