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PAPILIO TROILUS, 



BLACK AND YELLOW SWALLOW-TAIL BUTTERFLY. 



ANETIIUM f<KXICULUM. L/KX. 



EXCITES TRQ£$. 



P, E.T. dU caudatii nigra: primoribui pun&i margiiulibm [uttidb ; pofticu fupra pallido 

 fubtut mho nuculaiM augulo atii fulvo puueto nigra. 





r,4, 4. Dtwqiiwf r, \ t t. ii./ a, 3.J. 



Tii e caterpillar of tins fj>ccics cats fennel ami rue* It changed to a chrvfalis July 

 12th, awl the butterfly came forth cm the 20th- It b more frequent in Virginia 

 than in Georgia. 



ThU fr/tf*, and that in the following plate, have given iw more trouble than any otlxx 

 bleel in the work. Unfortunately the linnxan Cabinet portefle* neither ; and tlie fpednc 

 chancier* and defcriptions in the publication* of our great nutter, a* well ai thofc of hi* 

 worthy dimple Fabricim, arc by no meant fulficicnt to remove all doubt. In the preterit cafe, 

 however, the Bjnktlan Mufcura, revifcd by ftMtiWp with tl*e fyrronym* of Drury and Cra- 

 mer, enable ut with tolerable confidence, to offer thU infeci a* the Pjpith Tr$ihti f nothing eon* 

 Iradictory occurring in the two principal fyflcroauc author* above mentioned. We beg leave- 

 only to remark, that 1\ rfjtrrm t Fabr t p, <S. feerm not 10 be different from ihir. Our upper- 

 mofi figure U pcccifcly the No. 9. of Druryi and, according to hi* opinion, and ihcobfcrra- 

 liom of Mr. Abbot, h only a variety (pcrhapi a icxual difference) of the other. Drury'* 

 No. 4 t being the under ftdc of No. I> hi* AJtirnkj, hat nothing to do with either. 



The black dot in the orange fpol of the anal an$lc feetmamark of J\7>«/iu. lu cater- 

 pillar is very near dial of 1\ MmA, w, and betray* the tmperfeclion of our prefent 1) Hematic 

 arrangement* of ihit tribe, with refpeel to natural arhmtk*. 



P. AWiu, fJm> Sjfi* Sat. 7SI, it next akin to '/VmAu* and when Ltmutu* im it U 

 "fimthmus J\ Ajta* wc rather believe Iw romjarcd it with 7V«Au, which t* the *<kr of 

 Ctetdt, though widely different from hi* own repctfcMcd in our T*h 4. 



