PLATE CXX. 



Papilio Lysimnia is another of those very doubtful species of 

 the Papilio tribe which Fabricius describes, but of which there is no 

 other memorial now extant except the hitherto unpublished drawings 

 of the late Mr. Jones. This will be perceived by the entomologist 

 upon referring to the Fabrician writings. The figure in the upper 

 part of the plate is copied from the original drawings. The lower 

 figure, at the bottom of the plate^ would be no less a faithful copy of 

 the upper surface, if it exhibited no trace of the marginal row of 

 white spots, upon the exterior border of the lower wings, for in that 

 drawing the border is immaculate Our reason for this deviation 

 from the original design does not arise from any doubt of the 

 accuracy of the original drawing, it is merely intended to exemplify 

 a new variety of the same species that has lately occurred to obser- 

 vation, and which differs in no respect from the other, except in this 

 particular. 



We have no information upon which we can implicitly rely 

 respecting the native country of this elegant Papilio. The insect 

 represented in the centre of the plate, and which appears to differ 

 only in a very trifling degree, is from India, and the knowledge of 

 this fact induces us to conclude that the particular kind or variety 

 named Lysimnia by Fabricius, may be also from the same country. 



In offering the insect, represented in the centre of the plate, as 

 a probable variety, or rather, as it may be presumed, the female of 



* Fabricius notices the same circumstance in the species Pap. Mopsa, 

 for in >me specimens the white marginal dots which are conspicuous on 

 the be U r of the lower surface, are wanting in the upper surface. " Variat 

 rarius i-uiiotis albis tantum in pagina inferiore." 



