PAPILIO IX. 
PAPILIO INDRA, 1—4. 
Papilio Indra, Reakirt, Proc. Ent. Soc. Phil., VI., p. 123 , <f, 1866 . Putnam, Proc. Davenport Acad. Nat. 
Sci., I., pi. 35 , ?, 1876 . 
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Primaries moderately produced; costal margin much curved near apex; hind 
margin in male either slightly excavated or sinuous, in female straight; tails 
short, broad at base; the sexes alike in color and markings; closely allied to 
Brevicciuda. 
Male. — Expands 3 inches. 
Upper side black ; primaries have a submarginal series of small yellow spots, 
largest anteriorly and regularly diminishing in size to inner angle ; secondaries 
have a similar series of six spots, mostly lunate, the one at outer angle some¬ 
times obsolete ; a common yellow band crosses the disks, on primaries composed 
of eight spots, the upper six triangular, the seventh sub-quadrate, the eighth a 
narrow bar on inner margin ; the first of these spots has a circular incision on 
the costal side, perhaps cutting quite across; on the upper subcostal interspace 
is a rounded spot; on the inner side of the arc of cell a narrow bar or stripe, 
and a small patch within the cell; on secondaries the band is nearly straight 
on its inner side, or a little excavated, and consists of eight spots, the yel¬ 
low extremity of the cell counting as one ; beyond are clusters of blue scales; 
above the incision at inner angle is an orange-fulvous ring, edged on the side 
of the incision by yellow, surmounted by a blue crescent, and inclosing a 
rounded black spot; fringes of primaries black, of secondaries black, in the 
emarginations yellow. 
Under side paler black, the spots repeated, paler colored, the submarginal spots 
enlarged; those at the angles on secondaries more or less covered with orange ; 
also the spots on lower discoidal and upper median interspaces are tipped with 
orange; the black area between the spots and band, on primaries, immaculate, 
but on secondaries this area is dusted with blue or purple scales, and the middle 
of each interspace is of a deeper shade of black than elsewhere. 
Body black; the wing covers deep yellow ; the abdomen white without yel- 
