6o PLATE CCXXXVIII. 



F I G. IL 



PAPILIO EDUSA. 



Clouded Orange Butterfly. 



lepidoptera. 

 Fap£lio. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings entire, fulvous, or orange, with a black fpot and margin of 

 the fame colour. On the under fide greenifh ; a black fpot on the 

 anterior wings ; filver on the pofterior wings. 



PaPilio Edusa : alislntegerrimis fulvis t pun£lo marglneque nigris, 

 fubtus virefcentibus : anticis pun<3:o nigro, poftlcis 

 argenteo. Fab. Ent. Syji. 3.^. 2. 206. 643. 



If onr obfervations on the preceding fpecies are fatisfa£lory and 

 conclufive, the Infedt before us muft be a diftindl fpecies, and not the 

 true P. Hyale, for which it has ever been received. This involves 

 another interefting confideration, for Linnjeus muft have been ac- 

 quainted with this fpecies, as he refer« to figures of it in feveral 

 Authors. It is probable he confidered it as a variety, for it does 

 not appear under another name in any part of his Writings. 



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