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PAPILIO. 
Society. The upper wings are of a dirty greyish white colour, 
caused by the pale ground being entirely and thickly irrorated with 
minute black scales, the costa, veins, and a broad apical margin 
(dilated at the tip) black, the latter spotted with dirty white; the 
discoidal cell is marked near the tip with an oblique black bar, 
which extends to the black margin. 
The hind wings are very slightly sinuated, the base being of a 
paler greyish white, gradually running into a fulvous red. Between 
the discoidal cell and the hind margin is a row of white spots, 
varying in size, the four next the outer angle being preceded and 
followed by patches of black atoms, forming marginal, triangular 
patches of dark colour. The underside of the wings is paler 
coloured than the upper, the tips of the fore wings being fulvous 
brown, and the hind wings having a submarginal row of white 
crescents, and wanting the patches of black scales. The head, 
neck, thorax, breast, and abdomen, both above and below, are 
much spotted with white. 
The orchidaceous plant represented in the plate is the Indian 
Dendrobium pulcliellimi of Roxburgh, a native of w T oods in the 
district of Sylhet. 
HABITS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SPECIES OF PAPILIO. 
Mr. Edward Doubleday, whose notices of the Natural History 
of North America (observed during an excursion undertaken solely 
from a zeal for the subject as exhibited in wild nature) possess 
the greater interest, has favoured me with a series of notes of the 
habits of the species of Papilio which he met with, from which 
the following passages are extracted :— 
OF THE PAPILIONES IN BOISDUVAl’s ICONES. 
I have seen all, save three, alive; and of these three there are two, 
the grounds for admitting which into that w T ork I am unacquainted 
with. These tw r o are Polydamas and Villersii, bot h probably found 
in the extreme south of E. Florida, where Catagramma Clymene 
occurs. The other, P. Sinon, being from a drawing by Abbot, I 
doubt not, does occur in the U. S. By the by, this is not the same 
