PLATE CXXXVI. 



comes important in thepreseihl Alll>j^l(^4hfee, from the circumstance 

 of its description having been long before the eye of the scientific reader 

 in the writings of Fabricius, but unaccompanied with a reference to 

 the work of any author in which the figure is to be met with : the 

 truth is, there is no figure of the species extant, nor any description 

 except those derived from his labours. 



Fabricius describes P. Cassander as resembling P. Thrax, except 

 in being larger, and entirely destitute of those transparent spots which 

 appear conspicuous in the wings of that species. The Papilio 

 Thrax of Fabricius has appeared already in our publication on the 

 " Insects of India,** and will be found, on comparison with the 

 insect now before us, to be very diflferent, notwithstanding i its: 

 presumed assimilation. . uu^j 



In treating upon a species so confessedly ambiguous, and so 

 little calculated from its general aspect to afford any very decisive 

 character, it must be satisfactory to our readers to be informed that 

 the figures are immediate copies from the drawings of Mr. Jones, 

 the sole authority upon which the species is described by Fabricius. 



The native place of Papilio Cassander remains unknown : the 

 specimen figured by Mr. Jones was originally in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Drury, but the species is not sufficiently identified in the 

 manuscripts of that collector, now in our possession, to enable us to 

 speak precisely in this particular. The species of this family are 

 known to be very numerous, and to comprehend many kinds fromi 

 every part of the globe : they fly in the day-time, among the most 

 stunted herbage, and in places the least concealed from common 

 observation. 



