The larvae feed on Aristolochia species including A. elegans, A. odoratissima and A. acutifolia.

One of the commonest species, which is often met with in the woods, settling in damp places at the edge of the brooks.

Distributed from Colombia to Bolivia, Guiana and Para, but not yet found in Venezuela and Brazil proper.

*[* Faunistically we understand by Brazil the eastern part of the continent from the province of Goyaz and Pernambuco to Rio Grande do Sul.

— vertumnus Cr (3 c) is distinguished in the male from all the other forms of the species by the short-haired middle and hind tibiae.

[2] A full description is provided by Rothschild, W. and Jordan, K. (1906)[3] See note on synonymy under Seitz (above).