374 LEPIDOPTEROLOGIE COMPAREE 



consulter les documents anciens; Godart, le premier en date, dans 

 VEncyclopédie méthodique, p. 799, reproduit la diagnosc indi- 

 quée ci-dessus, mais ce qu'il décrit, comme nous le verrons, est 

 tout autre chose que le Phalaris de Fabricius. 



Voici maintenant Donovan, in Tlie Na/uralist's Rcposiiory, 

 p. 95 ; grâce à lui nous avons quelques précisions et une repro- 

 duction authentique des peintures de Jones. 



c( This very choice and truly interesting insect is one among 

 the number of those rarities of the Papilio tribe which has been 

 made known to the scientific world, through the entomological 

 writings of Fabricius, but of which no figure is extant in the 

 v/orks of any author : it is from the description only that the 

 species can be at présent known, and it is for this reason, with 

 no small degree of pleasure we are enabled to add upon this 

 occasion, as in many former instances, that the identity of the 

 species has been determined upon the same authority as that to 

 which Fabricius was himself indebted for his description of the 

 insect. The delineations in the annexed plate are f aithful copies 

 from the original drawings of Mr. Jones, which Fabricius has 

 described, and to which his work refer; and we rest persuaded, 

 that this circonstance alone necd be only mentioned to ensure 

 the attention they so justly merit in the mind of every enligh- 

 ' tened naturalist. 



» The painting to which Professor Fabricius refers for the 

 figure of Papilio Phalaris, in the collection of Mr. Jones, is the 

 second figure, tab. 75, of the third volume. Those figures, for it 

 is both the upper and the lower surface that are delineated, are 

 copied from a spécimen in the cabinet of Mr. Jones : its habitat 

 was thcn unknown, and it is with regret we must alow, that it is 

 not in our power even now to supply the deficiency. We recoUect 

 having seen an example of the same, or a very similar species 

 many years ago, among a parcel of insects collected in the 

 interior of Africa, about four hundred miles above Sierra Leona, 



