ENTOMOLOGY.
PLATE XXVII.
FIGURE I.
PAPILIO ZACYNTHUS
ZACYNTHUS’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 Trojani.—Fabr.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Wings indented, black: a spot on the anterior pair green and white: and one on the posterior wings palmated and sanguineous.
Papilio Zacynthus: alis dentatis nigris: anticis macula viridi alba, posticis palmata sanguinea.—Fabr. Ent. Syst. T. 3. p. 1. p. 15. n. 46.
Papilio Zacynthus.—Jon. fig. pict. 1 tab. 22.