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NEW SPECIES OF PAPILIO. 
colour extends also to the anal angle, and adjoining the tail are 
several luteous spots preceded by opaline-white lunules; the space 
between them and the discoidal cell being rich dark brown. The 
whole under side has a glossy appearance. The body beneath is 
brown, the abdomen yellowish. The legs are red brown. The 
specimen represented is a male. 
The species is most nearly allied to P. Peranthus. I have been 
very careful in giving the precise shape of the wings, both in this 
and the following species. 
PAPILIO CLOANTHUS, W. Plate 11, fig. 2. 
P. all's elongatis, anticis apice acutis, postieis caudatis \ nigris, fascia media communi subnuda 
argenteo-viresccnti, versus apicern anticarum in maculas 4 divisa, postieis maculis submar- 
gitiatibus concoloribus. 
Expans. alar. unc. 3J. Habitat in partibus septentrionalibus India? orientalis. 
The wings above are almost black, the centre marked with a very 
broad fascia, common to each, of a whitish-green tint, but almost 
transparent. The extremity of this bar is broken in the apical 
half of the fore wings into four patches of unequal size, the first 
divided transversely and the second longitudinally by the veins. The 
hind wings are moreover ornamented with four unequal-sized 
patches of similar colour, and the incisions between the tail and 
anal angle are edged with wdiite. 
The under side is paler browm, with similar silvery green semi¬ 
transparent spots. In addition to which the base of all the wings 
is also slightly green, and the fore wings have a pale line near to the 
outer margin; near the base of the hind wings are also three small 
and slender red lunules edged with black. At the extremity of the 
discoidal cell are also several black spots edged with dull pinkish- 
red, a similar spot is at the anal angle, and another at the side of. 
the first green patch. The body beneath is pale greyish-green. 
The abdomen whitish with a black b&r on each side. 
I have seen this species in the cabinets of F. J. Parry and 
W. W. Saunders, Esqrs., the British Museum, as w T ell as in several 
other collections. 
This insect is most nearly allied to P. Sarpedon and the neigh¬ 
bouring species, but is at once distinguished by being tailed, as well 
as by its acute fore wings, and the semi-transparency of its delicate 
silvery-green markings. 
“ Amidst the loud applauses of the shore, 
Gyas outstripp’d the rest, and sprang before ; 
Cloanthus, better maim'd, pursued him fast." 
Dryden's Virgil. 
