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tinental naturalifts as an inhabitant of Germany. It is the true 

 Papilio (Sat.) Blandina of the Fabrician fjftem *. This author 

 likewife defcribes another Papilio, nearly allied to the above, under 

 the fpecific name of Ligea. This latter is, however, fufficiently 

 diitinguimed by having four ocellate black fpots in the rufous band 

 on the upper wings inftead of three, as in P. Blandina. Fabricius, 

 in his general defcription, fpeaks of the near affinity his P. Blandina 

 bears to P. Ligea, but obferves that P. Ligea has a white fpot at the 

 end of the band on the underfide of the pofterior wings, which the 

 other has not. " Affinis P. Ligea. difFert tamen alis pofticis vix 

 ocellatis, fufcis fafcia cinerea abfque maculis albis." Fabr. — Papilio 

 Ligea was difcovered by Major Walker in the iile of Arran at the 

 lame time as P. Blandina, and will fliortly appear in the prefent 

 work*!*. 



* Fabricius defcribes two of the Papiliones under the fpecific name of Blandina, but 

 which cannot eafily be confounded, as one of them are of the Pap. Nymphaks tribe, and 

 the other belongs in his arrangement to the Satyri. — P. N. Blandina is an Eaft Indian 

 fpecies, and is fully noticed in our illuftration of Exotic Entomology. 



t Figures of both the above-mentioned infecls have appeared in a late publication, 

 the " Britifh Mifcellany," one in Plate 2, the other in Plate 7. Unfortunately, how- 

 ever, the Editor has entirely mifconceived the Fabrician authorities, and reverfed the two 

 names affigned them by that author. The Fabrician Papilio Blandina is by that means 

 erroneoufly named Ligea, and, vice vcrfa, the Fabrician P. Ligea, called Blandina.— 

 There are, befides, a few errors in the figures with regard to the form, fituation, and 

 number of the ocellate fpots. Tliofe relating to the P. Ligea will be hereafter noticed. 

 In our P. Blandina (Ligea Brit. Mifc.) the macular band on the underfide of the pofterior 

 wings appears to have only two fmall dots, while in the infect there are no lefs than fix, 

 the three lower of which has a white dot in the center. — We were at firft inclined to fufpect, 

 that the fpecimen in the cabinet of Mr. M'Leay, from which the drawing of that infect 

 was taken, might have been in fome meafure injured, and the fpots obliterated, or that 

 his infect varied from that we poffefs; we have, however, fince compared them, in order 

 to afcertain whether any fuch diffimilarity in realitj exifted between them, and find 

 the two infects correfpond in every refpecr. 



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