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which color encroaches on the inferior part of the discal cell, shaded 
with fulvous between the veins above the marginal lunules, and dis¬ 
tinctly divided by the black veins. There is a marginal row of elon¬ 
gate yellow lunules in the black marginal space; anal angle showing a 
large orange ill-defined ocellus transversed by a narrow faint blackish 
arcuated line ; tail moderate, straight, black sprinkled with yellowish 
in the center; emarginations yellowish. 
Under surface of anterior wings resembling upper surface, the yellow 
patches in the interspaces are of a lighter shade superiorily, becoming 
sulFused with orange towards the internal angle; at the outer extremity 
of the discal cell is a faint whitish streak along the vein. 
Under surface of the posterior wings resembling upper surface, the 
marginal lunules and terminal interspaces orange. 
Abdomen black, with a double row of lateral yellow spots, one on 
each segment; thorax and head black, latter with two small yellowish 
spots behind the eyes, and two larger lateral yellow spots on the collar; 
legs black; femora slightly streaked with yellowish. Exp. inches. 
Had. New York State. 
Resembles Papilio asterias Fab., in size, the shape of the wings and 
the markings of the body; the present species has but two rows of 
abdominal spots. It is however unnecessary to insist here upon the 
numerous differences which separate the present from each of our 
heretofore described species belonging to the present genus. From 
the circumstance of there having been but a single individual as yet 
taken in the locality, together with the prominence of the species which 
would render it unlikely to have been so long neglected, it might be 
supposed foreign and its introduction accidental; if so, it is still pro¬ 
bably undescribed, for, after as rigid an examination as was possible 
for me to make among the many figures and diagnoses under the pre¬ 
sent genus, I was unable satisfactorily to refer it to any heretofore 
acknowledged species. 
The male individual from which the above description and accurate 
accompanying figure was taken, is in the collection of Mr. Stephen 
Calverley, Brooklyn, L. I., to whom I dedicate the species, and was 
captured during the month of August, 1863, by Mr. Louis Fischer in 
the immediate neighborhood of the village of New Lots, Queen’s 
County, Long Island. 
