11 1 S T R Y 



OF 



BETTISH BUTTERFLIES. 



SWALLOW-TAIL. 



PLATE I. 



JPapilio Mncliaon. Linx.eus. Donovan. Harris. 



" " Curtis. Westwood. Duncan. 



FapiUo Re<j!na, De Geer. 



Jasoiiidcs 3rachaon, Hubner. 



Amaryssiis Machao)i, Dalman. 



Ix all our judgments of objects of Natural History, comparison 

 and relative proportion must guide us to the result. Compared 

 then with multitudes of the exotic sj^ecies whose dazzling reful- 

 gence, splendid hues, and elegant and wonderfully varied and 

 eccentric markings, adorn the hills and vallies of far distant 

 and tropical lands, which these by themselves alone furnish an 

 abundantly exciting wish to visit, the present, our largest British 

 Butterfly — our finest capture — holds but an humble place — '^a 

 Satyr to Hyperion" almost, — a foil by their side to their beauty. 

 But we must not, and we do not, despise our own Swallow- 

 tail. 



This fine species is said to be found in various parts of 

 Europe, Asia, and Africa, namely in the whole of the former 

 continent, even in Siberia; in Syria, Xcpaul, Cachemere, and 



