

LEPIDOPTERA. 
en 
PAPILIO WiES TA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings oblong, entire, yellow brown, margined with black {pots. 
Parrzro Vesra: alis oblongis integerrimis flavefcentibus: margine nigro punctato. Fab. Ent, Sy/. 
T. 3. p.2. 163. 503. 


Papilio Vefta is the only infe@ of the Heliconii divifion of Butterflies, defcribed by Fabricius as peculiar 
to China, in his Ext. Sy. It isa rare fpecies, and has not been figured in any work, unle{s the Papilio 
Terpfichore of Cramer prove the fame fpecies. The Papilio Vefta of that author is a very different infect, 
being the P. Erato of Fabricius. 

PAPILIO PASTT BOSE, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings oblong, entire, black. A central white {pot on each wing, and radiated white marks near the mar- 
gin, Under fide, pofterior pair yellow: a fpace of blood red coloar on the bafe. 
Papriio PasiTHoe: alis oblongis nigris albo fubradiatis: punéto centrali albo, pofticis fubtus luteis bafi 
cruentatis. Linn. Sy/t. Nat. 2. 755. 53. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. 179, 555. 
Papilio Porfenna. Cram. Inf. 4. tab, 43. fig. D. E. 

Not fo rare as the preceding fpecies; but by no means common. The upper furface is uniformly black, 
except the radiated white marks, fimilar, to thofe feen on the under furface of the anterior wings; and the 
white central fpot. It exhibits no trace of the red, and fcarcely a tinge of the yellow colour fo confpicu- 
ous on the under furface. 
















