ENTOMOLOGY.
PLATE XIX.
PAPILIO HOMERUS
HOMER’S BUTTERFLY.
Order
Lepidoptera.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Antennæ thicker towards the tip, and generally terminating in a knob: wings erect when at rest. Fly by day.
* Equites Achivi.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Wings caudated or terminating in tails, black with a yellow band; lower ones yellowish beneath, with seven ocellar spots:
Papilio Homerus: alis caudatis nigris: fascia flava posticis subtus flavescentibus: maculis ocellaribus septem.—Fabr. Ent. Syst. T. 3, p. 1. 29. 85.
Papilio Homerus: Jon. fig. pict. 1. tab. 8.
Corpus magnum nigrum. Alæ anticæ supra nigræ fascia maculari maculisque apicis flavis. Subtus anticæ concolores, at macula apicis tantum unica, marginalis, albida posticæ fuscæ, fascia media pallida maculis septem ocellaribus, atris iride rufa.