Antennæ thicker towards the tip, and generally terminating in a knob: wings erect when at rest. Fly by day.
**** Heliconii.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER
AND
SYNONYMS.
Wings oblong entire, black with somewhat hyaline spots: posterior pair with a yellow spot at the base, and two at the anal angle.
Papilio Belladonna: alis oblongis integerrimis atris sub-hyalino maculatis: posticis macula baseos anguloque ani maculis duobus flavis.
Papilio Belladonna: alis oblongis integerrimis atris: anticis hyalino punctatis, posticis flavo maculatis. Fabr. Ent. Syst. T. 3. p. 1. p. 180.
Papilio Belladonna. Jon. fig. pict. 3. tab. 37. fig. 2.
Statura P. Pasithoe at major. Corpus nigrum abdominis marginibus cinereis. Alæ atræ, cinereo punctatæ. Subtus concolores at lineola maculaque baseos albis. Posticæ atræ, flavo maculatæ macula baseos angulique ani majoribus. Subtus fere concolores.
A figure of this very rare and probably unique insect cannot fail, it is presumed, of proving an acceptable addition to the collectanea of the Entomologist: it is the only representation of the species now extant, and has been ascertained upon the authority of the only document we now possess of the insect intended in the Fabrician writings under the appellation of Papilio Hel. Belladonna.