. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. /I n wm4 I. w PLATE III. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PAPILIO HECTOR ILLUSTRATED. The genus Papilio, even in its most restricted modern state,comprises a very numerous assemblage of species— nearly 250 beingknown—differing greatly, not only in the imago, but also in thepreparatory states. The larvse of many Indian species have thebody smooth, with the two segments succeeding the head slenderand retractile beneath the third segment, which is dilated andocellated ; thus resembling the caterpillars of some of the Sphin-gids
. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. /I n wm4 I. w PLATE III. THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF PAPILIO HECTOR ILLUSTRATED. The genus Papilio, even in its most restricted modern state,comprises a very numerous assemblage of species— nearly 250 beingknown—differing greatly, not only in the imago, but also in thepreparatory states. The larvse of many Indian species have thebody smooth, with the two segments succeeding the head slenderand retractile beneath the third segment, which is dilated andocellated ; thus resembling the caterpillars of some of the Sphin-gidse, (P. Memnon, Arjuna, Cresphontes, Polites, and Pammon).The larvse of others have the tail bifid (P. Agamemnon, Pompilius,as well as P. Demoleus, according to Fabricius). Others againhave the body armed with fleshy tubercles, as in P. Polydorus andHector, and P. (Ornithopterus) Amphrisius ; whilst in P. dissimilis,these warts are replaced by recurved spines *. The chrysalides ofthe tuberculated larvse are remarkable for having the abdominalpart of the body much curved, and armed wi
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