PLATE CXXXIV. 



Papilio Tacitus is one of the Fabrician species described from 

 the drawings of Mr. Jones, to which we have had such frequent 

 occasion to refer in our endeavours to illustrate the Fabrician 

 writings on the science of Entomology ; and as it is from that in- 

 valuable collection that the figures in the annexed plate are copied, 

 they may be regarded as the identical delineations which Fabricius 

 has described. The original specimen (for the two figures represent 

 the upper and lower surface of the same insect) from which the 

 drawings of Mr. Jones were taken, was, at that time, in the rich 

 cabinet of Mr. Drury, but the subsequent dispersion of that fine 

 collection by public auction, after the death of its much respected 

 proprietor, must render it a matter of some difficulty at this period 

 to determine into whose hands the species passed, or whether it be 

 now extant or Tost. A very considerable portion of the extra 

 European insects of that collection, and the whole, without exception, 

 of the British insects, became our own property at the time of sale; 

 but Papilio Tacitus was not among the number : the specimen was, 

 however, familiar to our recollection while it remained in the cabinet 

 of Mr. Di'ury, and such was the accuracy of the drawings of 

 Mr. Jones, that we were perfectly satisfied with the representations : 

 if we had conceived they could be improved, we should certainly 

 have taken other figures from the original specimen, the collection 

 of Mr. Drury having been ever open to our service, and with the 

 utmost liberality, during the life time of its venerable possessor. 



It should be observed, that a figure of this insect is given in the 

 third volume of Mr. Drury's Exotic Insects; he was not aware, 

 however, at the time that plate appeared, of its being previously des- 

 cribed by Fabricius from the drawings of Mr. Jones, which he, had 



