Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 2 / or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals

by William Swainson

Tribe, Papiliones. Family, Papilionidæ. Sub-fam. Papilionæ.

Genus ——. Sub-Genus, Chlorisses, Nobis.

Sub-Generic Character.

Wings, black, banded or variegated with green: the posterior narrowed, with obsolete acute tails; Head, thick, sessile, the front very hairy; Antennæ, long, the club spatulate, and concave beneath; Posterior feet, with the first joint of the tarsus as long as the tibiæ.

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Specific Character.

Wings black, with a common green band: posterior obsoletely tailed: beneath, marked with a red and black lunated spot at the base.

Papilio Sarpedon. Linn. Fab. Entom. Syst. 3. p. 1. p. 14. No. 41. Cramer. Pl. 122. f. D. E.

Papilio Sarpedon. Ency. Meth. 9. p. 46. No. 62.