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SCARCE SWALLOW-TAIL. 7
the same shape. At the inside corner of the wing is a black
spot, with a blue patch of irregular shape in its centre, and
bordered above with red, forming an eye. The wings have
long tails; their tips are yellow.
The under side is paler than the upper, and the black
markings less extended. The band on the middle of the hind
wings is composed of two narrow' black lines, the outer one
of which is edged on the inner side with orange.
The caterpillar is short and thick, especially in the middle,
and most so towards the head; narrower towards the tail. It
is of a green colour, darkest on the back, and spotted with
black, varying to light yellowish, with a faint tinge of red
beneath. It has a narrow yellowish stripe along the back, and
another along the side, near the legs. On the sides are oblique
yellowish lines, dotted with reddish. The head is small.
The figure is taken from the original specimen mentioned
above, now in the cabinet of the Rev. George Rudston Read,
of the Rectory, Sutton-upon-Derwent, near Pocklington.