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PAPILIONID^. 
broader. Hind wings with black streaks ; hind margin black, tail 
long and narrow, slightly everted at the tip ; four lunules of blue 
scales on the border ; an orange and blue eye at the anal angle. 
Head, thorax, and abdomen black. Anteiinge black, with recurved 
clubs. PL I., 1. 
Times of Appearance. — April to September. 
Habitat. — North-central and South-central Europe, France, 
North Italy to Spain, South Russia, North Africa, Western Asia, 
and the Altai. It does not now occur in G-reat Britain, though 
there is little doubt that it was a British insect up to the 
beginning of the present century. It frequents woods, open plains, 
and road-sides, and may even be seen flying in the streets of towns. 
The Larva of Podalirius is yellowish green covered with red 
dots, with yellowish lines on the back and sides, and with oblique 
streaks. In shape it is thick in the middle, and tapering towards 
the extremities. Feeds on almond, sloe, plum, apple, pear, 
and oak. Times of appearance, June and September. PI. V., 1. 
The Pupa is light straw-colour, the wing-cases being browner. 
VARIETY. 
Feisthamelii, H.-S. 414, 416. Has the ground colour of the 
wings lighter than the type ; the markings being darker, and the 
border on the costa of the fore wings and the hind margins and 
anal angles of the hind wings, being strongly ochreous in the male 
and slightly so in the female, contrast more or less with the 
ground colour of the wings. PI. I., 2. 
Habitat. — Spain and North Africa. 
Aberrant form of the second brood. Zanclceus, 7i., has the 
abdomen white in the female, and more rarely in the male. 
Habitat, the South of Europe. 
2. P. Alexanor, Esp. 110, 1 (1799); Hub. Eur. Schmet. i. 
787, 788. 
Expands 2-18 to 2-75 in. Wings yellow, much more decidedly 
so than in Podalirius. Base of fore wings and hind margin black ; 
three or four black stiuaks run from the costa, but only one is 
continued to the inner margin. Hind wings with the hind margin 
