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us was taken from the drawing in the collection of Mr. Jones, and 

 that this drawing was copied from the specimen in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Drury ; subsequently this rarity came into our own possession." 

 On referring, however, to Jones's ' Icones,' to which a MS. Fabri- 

 cian list of species is appended, no assertion to this effect is inserted, 

 nor is the figure itself named by Fabricius, but by Mr. Jones ; it is 

 evident also that the description in the ' Mantissa ' was not taken 

 from Drury's specimen, inasmuch as it does not at all agree with it. 



The identification of P. Timon has now been settled beyond all 

 dispute through the courtesy of John Gibson, Esq., of Glasgow, who 

 has not only examined and sketched the original type in the Hun- 

 terian Museum, but has forwarded with his sketches the following 

 careful description of the insect ; the latter appears to be in a very- 

 mutilated condition : 



Papilio Timon. " Nearly of the size drawn (2 inches), the longest 

 tail, which is the one next the body, being about of an inch 

 long. The colouring of the upperside is very much faded ; it is a 

 sort of sepia-brown*, in the front wing the brown is darker at the 

 outside ; the hind wing and tail are of a cream- colour, which in 

 the front part of the wing passes off into the brown of the fore 

 wing ; the spots and lines are black, except one next the centre of 

 the wing, which is dull brown. The underside is very perfect ; it 

 is of a pale cream-colour all over, with two large black spots in the 

 hind wing connected by an irregular band of red ; round the inner 

 side of each black spot is a very narrow edge of bright blue." 



5. Myrina Lisias. 



Papilio (P. B.) Lisias, Fabricius, " alis tricaudatis ; anticis fuscis, 

 macula fulva ; posticis subtus albis, nigro maculatis : habitat in 

 Pulicandor." Donovan, Ins. Ind. pi. 40. fig. 1 (1800). 



Fabricius, Mant. Ins. p. 65. n. 615 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 



p. 261.' n. 12 (1793). 

 Barrackpore, India. (Presented 1861, by Sir John Hearsay) B.M. 



The type of M. Lisias is in the Banksian Collection in the British 

 Museum. Donovan's figure is most incorrect ; the hind wings should 

 be dark brown, not fulvous. 



6. Myrina Amor. 



Papilio (P. 11.) Amor, Fabricius, " alis tricaudatis, fuscis ; subtus 



disco variegato strigaque postica aurea : habitat in India orientali." 



Fabricius, Syst. Ent. p. 518. n. 321 (1775); Sp. Ins. p. 113. 



n. 491 (1781) ; Mant. Ins. p. 65. n. 610 (1787) ; Ent. Syst. 



iii. p. 260. n. 7 (1793). 



* " Mr. Chapman (a gentleman to whom the keeper of the Museum sent me, 

 as the only one who could find the butterfly for me) thought that the colour 

 towards the base had been a metallic blue ; but there was no trace of it renuiiu- 

 ing, the wing at that part of the upper surface being nearly bare and having 

 only a faded tint of the brown of the rest of that surface." 



