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The Natural Hiftory of JAM AIC A. 
The black and green chargeable colour'd Butterfly. 
This is not an Inch long in the Body, of a dark brown Colour, 
the Antenne almoft an Inch long, the Ends of the extended Wings are 
diftant two Inches and an half, the fecond pair of Wings are an Inch 
anda half long, from their Beginning to the End of their Appendices which 
are a quarter of an Inch long, the underfide of the Body is grey, the 
upper Part of the Wings is blackifh, with tranfverfe Strokes of a fhin- 
ing green changeable Colour, having one large Spot with an Eye of purple, 
on the under fide of the fame, but much lighter. Befides the twoone 
quarter of an Inch long Appendices, are feveral others f{maller along 
the Margin of the fecond pair of Wings. : 
Tis to be met with in the inland Woods, whence ’tis blown by the 
Norths into the Savanaa’s, tho’ not very commonly. 
’Tis one of the moft elegant Sorts of Butterflies 1 ever faw. 
XVI. Papilio major e viridi nigricans alts laciniatis, quarum fuperiorum 
maroines utvinque maculis luteis notantur, inferiores anaulis croceis infigniun- 
tur. Tab. 239. Fig.19,20. An Papilio nigricans er ex albo rubroque macu- 
lata. Mer. met. Inf. furin. p. 17. Red fpotted, black Carol. Papilio dentatus 
niger, furin. maculis rubris. Pet. Mem, Cur. Oct. 1708. p. 239 ? 
The dark brown colour’d Butterfly inclining to green, with yellowifh Spots round 
the Margin. 
The Body of this Butterfly is near an Inch long, black or dark brown 
above, tho” underneath it has all along Thorax and Belly fcarlet Spots; 
it is two Inches and a half from the End of one Wing to that of the 
other, being both extended ; the Wings are four, and they are about an 
Inch deep and wav’d. All the upper fide is of a dark brown Colour or black 
and green changeable, with pretty large yellowifh Spots round the Mar- 
gin of both Pairs; the underfides are of the fame—Colour, only has fe- 
veral fcarlet Spots within the yellow ones, and rhe Ribs are black. 
This Fly has a fpiral long black Probofcis. 
Tis not uncommon in moft Places about the Town. 
XVIT. Papilio maximus odoratus, oculatus, alis utringque e fufco purpureis, 
lineis undates fufcis vartegatis, Tab. 236. Fig. 13,14. 
The largeft brown and purple fiveet fmelling Butterfly. 
The Body of this Butterfly is not over an Inch long, ’tis big, and all 
except the Head cover’d over with a brown Wool pretty long, the Head 
has two Inches long Astenne, and two hemifpheerical large Eyes, the 
Thorax is large and gives original to fix long Legs, the Joint next 
the Body or Thigh being cover’d with a long downy Wool, the other 
Joints being brown. It hath four Wings, when extended from the 
one to the others End they are three or four Inches long, and an 
Inch and a quarter broad, covering much more than the Abdomen. 
Underneath they are of a fine purple Colour, variegated with brown 
Lines, waved and changeable, and have fome brown Marks at their 
Margin, above of the fame Colours but they are darker. They have 
two Spotson each of the firft Wings, half way down their upper fides, 
with two Eyes black witha brown Iris. The whole Butterfly fmells 
very 
