PAPIL10 VI. 
PAPILIO ZOLICAON, 1-4. 
Papilio Zolicaon, Boisduval, Ann. Soc. Eat. de France, 1852, p. 281. H. Edwards, Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1873, p. 3. 
Primaries much produced, strongly arched, hind margin straight or convex; 
tails long, narrow; the sexes alike in color and markings. 
Male. — Expands about 3.25 inches. 
Upper side of primaries black, marked and spotted with deep yellow; of sec¬ 
ondaries yellow from base nearly two thirds the distance to margin, beyond 
black ; primaries have a sub-marginal series of eight spots, equal, the anterior 
ones rounded, the rest either oval or lunular, and a discal series of eight forming 
a band across the entire wing ; above these last, on the upper sub-costal inter¬ 
space, a long patch of yellow scales, and a rounded or oval spot; the first discal 
spot deeply and roundly excavated on the upper side, sometimes divided into 
two ; the second shorter than the first, and the third than the second, after 
which the series gradually increases in length to the sixth, the breadth 
being nearly equal ; the seventh is large, sub-rectangular, the eighth a nar¬ 
row stripe on the inner margin; a narrow yellow bar crosses the cell inside 
the arc, and near it is a second, also narrow, sometimes compressed in the mid¬ 
dle and then expanding largely on sub-costal nervure ; the basal area somewhat 
dusted with yellow scales. Secondaries have a broad black border which in¬ 
closes a sub-marginal series of six yellow spots ; the first, at outer angle, 
small, often wanting, the next three large and lunular, the fifth at base of tail 
lunular or sub-triangular, the last a streak near the angle ; in the interspaces 
above these spots are clusters of light blue scales; the abdominal margin bor¬ 
dered with black to median nervure, leaving at the outer extremity of the sub¬ 
median interspace only a small triangular patch of yellow; above the incision 
at the anal angle, over a yellow patch, is a ring, varying in color from orange 
to deep fulvous, which incloses a round or oval black spot, and is edged on the 
upper side by a blue crescent; occasionally the ring is wanting, being replaced 
by black which may have a very narrow edging of fulvous on the lower side; 
the rest of wing, which comprises the basal area and much of the disk, yellow, 
divided into eight spots, the cell being one, by the black nervures ; fringes of 
