Zoological Illustrations Series II/Plate 120
CLYTIA dissimilis.
CLYTIA dissimilis,
Idea-likeness Butterfly.
Family Papilionidæ. Sub-fam. Papilionæ. Genus Clytia.
Generic Character.
Wings rounded, spotted. Anterior broad, ample, the posterior and the external margins of equal length: posterior slightly undulated at the margin, but destitute of tails. Pupa braced, with the head upwards.
Types. Pap. Clytia, dissimilis. L. Pap. Macarius. Godart. P. Panope Cr.
Specific Character.
Wings black, the interstices of the nerves pale fulvous white, broken into numerous stripes and spots, inferior wings with a marginal row of orange spots, surmounted by pale lunules, on a black border.
Papilio dissimilis Linn. Fab. Ent. Syst. 3. 1. p. 38. Ency. Meth. 1. p. 76. Cramer. Pl. 82. C. D. Rœmer. Gen. Ins. pl. 18. f. 6.
We have never seen specimens of this Butterfly from any other country than China, although it appears that General Hardwicke has met with it in British India, and has communicated a valuable drawing of the larva and pupa to Dr. Horsfield, in whose interesting work it is engraved. To that plate we must refer the entomologist who wishes to understand the previous states of this insect; while its general aspect at once intimates its resemblance or analogy to the Sub-genus Idea F, and consequently points it out as the generic type of that form in the circle of the Papilionæ. According to these views, Clytia is united to Amphrysius, by the sub-genus Epius; (Pap. Epius. Auct.) and at the same time forms the generic passage to the Pieridæ, Sw. For want of a better term, we must call this the Rasorial type, as it corresponds to that Ornithological group.
The aberrant group of the Sub-family Papilionæ appear to be the genera Leilus, Sw. (Uranea Lat.) Antimachus, Sw. and Clytia Sw. the two typical genera being Papilio and Amphrisius, Sw.