PAPILIO Till. 
PAPILIO BREYICAUDA, 1-5. 
Papilio Brevicauda, Saunders. Packard’s Guide, p. 245. 1869. 
Primaries moderately produced, costal margin much curved apically, hind 
margin much rounded ; tails short, broad at base ; the sexes alike in shape and 
markings. 
Male. — Expands about 3 inches. 
Upper side black ; primaries have a sub-marginal series of eight small yellow 
spots, rounded or oval ; secondaries have a similar series of six spots,, large, 
mostly lunate ; a common yellow band crosses the disks, composed on primaries 
of eight spots, the upper six sub-triangular, varying in size, the seventh sub¬ 
quadrate, the eighth a narrow stripe ; the first of these spots has a circular 
incision on the costal side; a stripe or a rounded spot in the upper sub-costal 
interspace ; the inner side of the arc of cell bordered by a narrow stripe : on 
secondaries the band consists of seven spots separated only by the black ner- 
vures : occasionally the outer extremity of the cell is also yellow ; beyond the 
band are clusters of blue scales in the interspaces; above the incision at inner 
an-le is a fulvous ring on the upper side of a yellow patch, surmounted by a blue 
crescent, and inclosing a rounded black spot or point; fringes yellow, black at 
the ends of the nervules. „ , j , 
Under side blackish-brown ; the spots repeated, and all but those of the sub¬ 
marginal row on primaries usually more or less suflused with fulvous mdivid- 
uals varying greatly in this respect; in some there is an absence of fulvous on 
primaries, and but little on secondaries ; on both wings the space between t le 
row of spots and the band is dusted with yellow scales, most densely on secon¬ 
daries, and on these last are patches of blue scales at the anterior edge of the 
yellow on each interspace ; the ring at the angle as on upper side, but. often the 
black spot is joined by a ligament to the black edge of the inner margin. 
Body black, the wing covers slightly tinted with yellow; upon the abdomen is 
a row of yellow points on either side of the dorsum, and a lateral row from base 
