76 PLATE CCXLIV. 



This fpecies has hitherto been deemed the Papilio Camilla of 

 Linnaeus, though it differs in a flight degree from the defcriptions 

 and figures of authors who defcribe only Gefman or Swedifh fpeci- 

 mens of it. In the late editions of the Syfema Nature, P. Camilla is 

 defcribed with P. Sibilla, a Papilio nearly allied to it, but which 

 Linnaeus confidered as a diftinct fpecies ; his defcription of Camilla 

 exprefsly faying " angulo ani rubro." — The angulis ani, of P. Si- 

 billa *, not being of a red colour, removes it from the Engliih fpecies. 



Fabricius is of a different opinion, and in diffenting from his au- 

 thority it is incumbent to ftate our objections. In the Species infec- 

 torum of that author, the P. Camilla with the Linnaean fpecific cha- 

 racter, is made a variety /3 of Sibilla. The fynonyms of the two 

 infects are ambiguous, and the references not more fatisfactory. 

 Among others he refers for P. Sibilla, to Drury's Inf. 2. tab. 16. fig. 

 1, 2, — to Roejel Inf. S. tab. 70. fig. 1, 2, 3, — and to Scbaffer \52 f. 

 fig. 1, 2 } The two laft are perhaps the fame fpecies ; the firft is un- 

 quefiionably different. For P. Camilla he refers to Roefel tab. 33. 

 fig. 3, and this agrees with our fpecimen, except in the colours of 

 the upper furface being fomewhat paler; fo that we may conclude 

 our Engliih Infect is not only the P. Camilla of Linnaeus but alfo 

 tbe /3 Camilla of Fabricius. 



The ultimate opinion of Fabricius is however different, for in the 

 Entomologia Syflematica fince publifhed, Camilla and Sibilla ftands a 

 diftinct fpecies; and Camilla is thus defcribed, " alis dentatis atris 

 coeruleo micantibus : fafcia utrinque maculari alba, pofticis fubtus 

 bafi argentea immaculata." Linn. Syft. Nat. 2. 781. 187. habitat 

 in Auftria. Thus P. Camilla will no longer agree with our infect, 

 nor with that figured by Rsefel, plate 3. S, fig. 3. But if we refer 

 to the Syftema Naturae of Linnaeus, we difcover another error, for 



* Roefel's figure, vol. 3. tab. 70. has an obi'cure red band entirely acrofs the pofterior 

 wings. — Schaeffer's iigure has no trace of Ted on that part. 



t Erratum.— Defigued for 153— for 152 is the German variety of Papilio Iris, Purple 

 Emperor Butterfly. 



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