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

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

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

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

 diftinguifhed 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 posterior 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 ifle of Arran at the 

 fame time as P. Blandina, and will fhortly 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. Nyinpliales 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. 



+ Figures of both the above-mentioned infects have appeared in a late publication, 

 the " Britilh 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 verfa, 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. Thofe relating to the P. Ligea will be hereafter noticed. 

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

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

 the three lower of which has a white dot in the center. — We were at fir ft inclined to fufpeft, 

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

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

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

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

 the two infects correfpond in every refpett, 



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