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TAB. XIII. 

 PAPILIO Chryseis. 



Class 5. Insecta. Order 3. Lepidoptera. 



Spec. Char. Male. Wings orange above, with black 

 margins, and a black spot on the upper ones, 

 which are of a blue colour. Female, orange 

 above, clouded and spotted with black. Both 

 brown beneath, with 27 eye-like spots. 



Syn. p. Chryseis. Fab, Mant. Ins. 2. 79. n. 725. 



Gmel. Syst. Nat. ed. 13. v. 1. 



2359. n. 815. 

 JVein. Sclnnetterl. 181. n. 3. 



Anxious that no discovery in Natural History should 

 escape us, we are happy in presenting this insect to the 

 public; and the valuable communications of our friends 

 have helped us to many things that might have lain long 

 dormant, or perhaps have been totally lost and forgotten. 



This new British Papilio was caught by Mr. Plasted of 

 Chelsea, in Ashdown forest, Sussex, 



