PLATE CXIII. 



The upper as well as lower surface of this very beautiful and 

 scarce Papilio being represented in the annexed plate, any minute 

 description of its colours, marks, and general appearance might be 

 deemed superfluous. The figures are faithful copies of the drawings 

 of Mr. Jones, to which Fabricius refers for the species. The insect 

 from which those drawings were taken constituted part of the 

 scientific cabinet of Mr. Jones, but it was not, as Fabricius informs 

 us, a native of America, but of Africa. Mr. Jones received it from 

 Mr. Smeathman, who met with it at Sierra Leone. Mr. Drury 

 also received another specimen from the same intelligent collector, 

 which had been taken by himself likewise, at the same time and 

 place. The description and figure of this latter acquisition appeared 

 in the third volume of Drury's Exotic Entomology, and is slightly 

 adverted to by Fabricius, but without any reference to the plate in 

 which it is contained. That no doubt may remain as to the accuracy 

 of our correction of this error in the Fabrician writings, we shall 

 subjoin the entry of this interesting insect from the original manu- 

 scripts in the hand-writing of Mr. Drury. Dan. Fest. 15. 285. 

 Eleus N. Plial. Sierra Leone- Mr. Smeat?ima7i, 1/74. From this 

 note, in addition to the information we were favoured with by 

 Mr. Jones, it becomes obvious, that Fabricius was entirely mistaken 

 in describing Papilio Eleus as an American insect. It appears 

 unquestionably, upon the authority of Mr. Drury, to be a native of 

 Africa, and that he obtained it from Mr. Smeathman, the traveller, 

 who had himself taken it in that region of the globe- Mr. Drury, 

 who had considered it as one of the Nymphales Phalerati, has after- 

 wards placed it with the Danai Festivi, and the numbers annexed 

 in the MSS. refer to the particular space in the drawer in which it 

 was stationed,jtlK? 15th specimen. No 285 of the Nymphales Festivi^ 



