PAPILIO IX. 
low excepting a lateral patch near the extremity; legs, palpi, and antennae 
black. 
Female. — Expands 3 to 3.5 inches. 
Similar to .the male in color and markings; the submarginal spots of seconda¬ 
ries below more or less orange-tinted ; but in some examples the orange is con¬ 
fined to the two extreme spots, as in the male. 
This species is as yet exceedingly rare in collections. Mr. James Ridings 
brought from Colorado, in 1864, two males, one of which came into my posses¬ 
sion and is figured on the Plate, and the other was described by Mr. Reakirt, 
and is in the collection of the Entomological Society, at Philadelphia. Two 
females were taken by Mr. J. Duncan Putnam, in Clear Creek Cation, above 
Golden City, Colorado, in 1872, and one of these has been kindly loaned me for 
illustration. The other is figured in the proceedings of the Davenport Academy, 
and seems to have had no tail whatever, — merely a dentation a little more 
prominent than elsewhere. In the collection of Mr. Henry Edwards is a female 
taken in Tuolumne County, on the rim of the Yo Semite Valley, and a male 
found on Mount St. Helena, in Napa County. These were the only examples 
known to us at the beginning of 1877. Mr. Edwards wrote me in July, as fol¬ 
lows : “ I went up to the Sierras on 9th July and stopped at the Summit Station, 
7,200 feet above the sea. The second day after my arrival I saw, close to the 
house, an Indr a on the wing, and the next day I climbed to the top of one of 
the highest peaks in the region, that is, to an altitude of 8,000 or 8,200 feet. 
Sporting about on the top of this peak, the plateau being about thirty yards by 
ten in area, were three grand Indra. But the wind was blowing fearfully, and 
they were constantly chased by Vanessas Cardui and Carye, and it was utterly 
impossible for me to catch one of them. They were very wild and over the 
edge of the cliff, which was quite precipitous, in a moment, forbidding the least 
approach. I bad to go home the next day and had no chance to repeat my 
search.” 
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After the plate of Indra was drawn, I received from Mr. Edwards a fine pair 
of this species, and as the female was larger than the example figured I regret¬ 
ted my inability to have given it also. Mr. Edwards writes: “ Among some 
insects which were collected by a young friend of mine, Hermann Dwinelle, who 
died here a few weeks ago, and who desired that the whole of his collection 
should be sent to me, I find several specimens of Indra, taken by him in Shasta 
County, in July of the present year.” Mr. Edwards adds : “ There is no doubt 
that the Coast Range of California is the home of Indra, and that all examples 
