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TAB. V: 
PAPILIO MACLEAYANUS. 
P.alis caudatis glaucis, limbo communi nigro albo-~ 
punctato ; anticarum maculis duabus viridibus. 
Habitat in Australasia. 
Mus. Dom. Macleay. 
MACLEAY’S BUTTERFLY. 
Wings tailed, glaucous green, with a black border spot- 
ted with white, the anterior ones with two irregular spots 
of green. 
I am indebted to Dr. Hinton Spalding for this new 
and elegant species, which was discovered at Port 0 
by Mr. A. Huey. a 
I have named this butterfly after my much- sstoaiubets 
friend, Alexander Macleay, Esq. Sec. Lin. Soc. &c. to whom 
I cannot sufficiently express my full sense of his io uA 
marks of kindness and friendship. - 2s 
The tails appear to have been slightly injored, but ‘the 
other characters are so strong as to distinguish it from every 
known species of the genus. 
Papilio Nereus of Linnzus, Clerck, Ic. Ins. rar. Tab. 30; 
Cramer, Pap. ex. Tab. 187, a. B. and of Drury, vol. 2, 
Tab. 4, Fig. 1 and 2, and a Papilio which appears to me 
to be- another species, figured by Cramer, Tab. 378, as 
the other sex of Nereus, approach nearer to this species 
than any other; whilst P. Sarpedon and dgamemnon, seem 
to form the connecting links betwixt these and the genuine 
long-tailed Papiliones. 
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