Papilionidce. 109 



"These black dots are not seen, but only denote'' . . . 

 (here torn, but meaning the white dots which Donovan 

 introduced into his published figure, and which he evi- 

 dently supposed in 1825, when he published his plate, 

 were the only markings in the under-surface of the wings. 



Again, in the ' Mantissa Insectorum,' and Ent. Syst. 

 iii. p. 260, Fabricius described — 



Thecla Timon, 



with the " Habitat in America, meridionali, Mus. Dr. 

 Hunter.'' The description, which is identical in the two 

 works, is very clear ; " alls — subtus albis ; posticis fascia 

 abbreviata sanguinea." — In Jones's ' Icones,' vol. v. pi. 

 i. fig. 2, 2a, a large species of Thecla was represented as 

 P. Timon, with a reference to the collection of " Drury," 

 from '' Amer. meridion." It happens, however, that we 

 are able to state, that this species figured by Jones was 

 not recognized by Fabricius, as having been described 

 by himself; for at the commencement of this fifth volume 

 of Jones's ' Icones,' is a manuscript of such of the species 

 as had been described by Fabricius in his own hand- 

 rm-iting, as we learn by Mr. Jones's note, " This is Mr. 

 Fabricius's own writing, the names given and corrected 

 by himself;" and in this list neither of the species re- 

 presented in pi. I. are referred to. Donovan, however, 

 with his usual boldness, affirms of the figures which he 

 published in the 'Naturalist's Repository,' vol. Ill.pl. 

 xcvii., copied from Jones's figures : — 



" Papilio Timonia another of those choice examples of 

 the Papilio tribe, for the description of which we are in- 

 debted solely to Fabricius, and for the illustration of the 

 species in the inestimable drawings of Mr. Jones. The 

 species is a native of South America, and was originally 

 preserved in the cabinet of Mr. Drury ; subsequently this 

 rarity came into our own possession. Fabricius refers 

 for the specimen he describes, to the cabinet of Dr. 

 Hunter, in which there may perhaps be other examples 

 of the same insect ; but we are well assured front the 

 Fahrician MS., that the description of the species which 

 he has left us, was taken from the drawings in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Jones, and that this drawing was copied from 

 the specimen in the cabinet of Mr, Drury, to which we 

 have adverted." 



