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Order . LEPIDOPTERA, Linnceus. 
PAPILIO ANTENOR. 
Plate XV. fig. 1. 
Tribe. Diurna, Latreille. Genus: Papilio, Linn., (Butterflies.) 
Family. Papilionid^e, Leach. 
Genus. Papilio, Latreille. (Papiliones Equites, Linn.) 
Species. Papilio Antenor: alis dentatis concoloribus atris albo-maculatis ; posticis caudatis ; 
disco atomis viridibus lunulisque marginalibus rubris. Expans. alar. 6 unc. 6 lin. 
Papilio : with the wings dentate, black with many white spots, the posterior pair tailed, 
and with the disk powdered with green atoms, the margin with red lunules. 
Expanse of the wings 61 inches. 
Syn. Papilio Antenor, Drury, III. Exot. Ent.vol. 2 app. pi. 3,f. 1, 2d edit. v. 2, p. 4. Fabr. 
Ent. Syst. III. I. p. 4, No. 9. Jablonslcy, Pap. 2. t. 3, Jig. 1. Boisduval Hist. 
Nat. Lepid. 1, p. 189. No. 2. Enc. Mtth. 9, 69. 
Habitat. Tropical Africa. 
This species was originally described by Drury, from whom all subsequent writers 
(including Donovan) have derived their descriptions and figures of this exceedingly rare 
butterfly. Drury states that he was unaware from what country his specimen was 
obtained. Fabricius, however, gave India as its country, on which authority, apparently, 
Donovan introduced it into this work, observing that it might “ be numbered with much 
propriety among the rarest of the Papilio tribe found in India.” In the second edition 
of Drury’s Illustrations, I have stated the incorrectness of this locality, on the authority 
of a specimen in the collection of the Rev. F. W. Hope, brought from tropical Africa 
by the late Mr. Ritchie. Had the insect moreover been an inhabitant of India, it would 
surely have been received more frequently. No specimen however, as far as I am 
aware, is contained in any of the continental collections. 
PAPILIO ANTIPHUS. 
Plate XV. fig. 2. 
Species. Papilio Antiphus : alis concoloribus nigris, anticis ad apicem griseo radiatis, posticis 
caudatis, lunulis septem submarginalibus rubris. Expans. alar. 3 unc. 3 lin. 
Papilio : with all the wings similarly coloured, black ; the anterior paler, greyish at 
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