PLATE CXL. 



Methodiqiie, now in a course of publication in Paris. The error 

 alluded to is important chiefly, we must confess, to the Fabrician 

 entomologist ; but when we recollect the great^ the invaluable 

 character of the writings of Fabricius in this department of natural 

 history, and the deserved celebrity attached to his labours, as well 

 in every other country as in Germany, his place of birth and residence, 

 we can scarcely deem our time misspent in endeavouring to afford 

 them that elucidation which our industry and attention to science in 

 earlier days have placed entirely in our power. The oversight 

 adverted to is certainly one which every other author, as well as 

 M. Goedart, might have committed^ nor could we ourselves perhaps 

 have been enabled to detect it with so much promptitude had we not 

 possessed those documents of the Fabrician manuscripts which enable 

 us to write with certainty upon the subject. The circumstance is this : 

 the ingenious editor of the entomological department of the work 

 alluded to, had named a species of the Papilio tribe, Papilio 

 Latreillii, a compUment intended to commemorate the name of 

 M. Latreille, a distinguished entomologist of the Jardin des Plantes, 

 and the author of several interesting publications. M. Latreille in 

 his visit to London a fev/ years ago, had seen in the cabinet of the 

 secretary of the Linna?an Society, Alexander MacLeay, Esq, this 

 very beautiful insect of the Papiliones_, the description of which 

 he communicated to M. Goedart for publication, as a species 

 presumed to be altogether new, and as such it was inserted in 

 the work before mentioned^ under the then unappropriated name 

 of Papilio Latrellii ; the name by which it was distinguished in the 

 cabinet of Mr. MacLeay till we saw it there some time afterwards. 

 The beauty of the species is sufficiently striking, and this in passing 

 through the Papiliones of that splendid cabinet could not fail to attract 



