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Vol. I. Plate 11. 



Fig. III.— Expands about three inches. 

 Upper Side. — The antennee are black. The 

 head, thorax, and abdomen brown. All the wings 

 (the edges of which are even not dentated) are of 

 a deep brown, with a shade of clay colour, rising 

 near the anterior edges of the superior ones, runs 

 along near the tips and ends at the external edges. 



Under Side. — The eyes are black, the palpi 

 yellow. All the wings are the same brown colour 

 as the upper side, with the clay-coloured shade near 

 the tips as on that. The superior wings have five 

 whitish spots on each placed on a row near the 

 external edges, the inferior ones have on each some- 

 times five and sometimes seven spots of the same 

 colour placed in a circular row, that meets near the 

 extremity of the body. 



I received it from China. I cannot find it any 

 where described. 



Fig. III. — II deploye ses ailes environ trois pouces. 



Le Dessus. — Les antennes sont noires. La tele 

 le corcelet et I'abdomen bruns. Les ailes (dont les 

 bords sont unis on point denteles) sont d'une 

 couleur brune foucee, avec une nuance couleur 

 d'argille se levant proche des bords anterieurs des 

 ailes supcrieures, qui court le long pres des bouts 

 et finit aux bords exterieurs. 



Le Dessous. — Les yeux sont noires, les anten- 

 nules jaunes. Toutes les ailes sont de la meme 

 couleur brune que en dessus, avec la nuance d'ar- 

 gille proche des bouts chacune des ailes superieures 

 a cinq taches blanchatres, placees sur une ligne 

 pres des bords exterieurs. Les inferieures ont 

 chacune quelquefois cinq et quelquefois sept taches 

 de la meme couleur rangees circulairment et se 

 rencontrant pres de I'extremite du corps. 



II I'ai recue de la Chine. Je ne le trouve point 

 decrit. 



The name of Papilio Eumeus was consequently proposed for this insect in the Appendix 

 to the second volume. 



Amongst the manuscripts with which I have been favoured by the relatives of Mr. 

 Drury, or have obtained elsewhere, are comprised a variety of notes relative to the pub- 

 lication of this work, and of observations from which the following are selected. He 

 notices that " his descriptions are only intended to assist the reader in ascertaining the 

 different species ; and that they are not intended to be so complete as to give a perfect idea 

 of the animal without the help of the figure." He alludes to the difficulty not only " of 

 ascertaining true colours or calling them by their proper names," but also of " colouring 

 the prints so, as to exactly represent the natural specimens," — that he has mentioned and 

 given English names to no more parts of insects than had suited his purpose for describing 

 them, — that " there are some parts mentioned in the descriptions which cannot be seen 

 in the plates, such as the Gorget (Sternum), &c. which may serve not only to assist in 

 classing them, but to ascertain their species." " The descriptions of the HjTnenoptera are 

 not intended to be so complete as to give a perfect idea of the insect, but are only given to 

 assist the reader in observing the figures." 



" All the descriptions are taken from the insects themselves ; whatever defects, there- 

 fore, arc to be observed in comparing them with the coloured figures must be imputed to the 

 artist, as it would not be proper to describe them according to the prints, but to nature." — 



