Closely resembling in colour and pattern the male of Sericinus, being like this spotted with black on a pale yellow ground, the hindwing bearing traces of red near the middle of the costal margin and at the anal angle.

[now species Allancastria caucasica (9e) has in both sexes very large, broad, black costal spots on the forewing, the hindwing being sUghtly and almost evenly scalloped, the middle tooth hardly projecting; in Armenia.

[ now species Allancastria deyrollei] (9d) has the three teeth before the anal angle of the hindwing prolonged into short tails; in the coast districts of the Black Sea, in the whole of Asia Minor, southward to Syria; extremely common, in some places appealing in enormous numbers.

(9e) [now species Allancastria cretica] occurs on Crete and some Greek islands; a sparsely marked form in which the three teeth of the hindwing mentioned above are indicated only by black curved lines, the edge of the wing not being distinctly excised.

Allancastria cerisyi (Godart, 1824) Named in the Classical tradition In Greek mythology, Polyxena is the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba