PLATE CXLIIL 



Papilio Laertes : alis dentatis cinereo albis : anticis apice nigris, 

 posticis subtiis striga ocellorum flavorum. Fabr, 

 Ent S?jst. t, 3. p.l. 84. n. 262. 



Papilio Laertes : Drury Ins. 3. tab. 15. fig. 1. 



A magnificent species of the Papilio tribe, a native of South 

 America, described by Fabricius from an example in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Drury, under the name of P. Laertes^ and by that name it was 

 distinguished also in the third volume of the Exotic Entomology 

 of Mr. Drury, plate 15, as above referred to. Subsequently to that 

 publication, and after the completion of the Fabrician ''Entomologia 

 Systematica,'^ the author of the latter work appears to have observed 

 that he had two different species of the Nymphales tribe under the 

 same name, the present species. No. 262, and the Nymph. Laertes 

 of Cramer, No. 226. To obviate the confusion that would result 

 from this two-fold nomenclature, he therefore changed the name of 

 Mr. Drury 's species, leaving that of Cramer under the name of Laertes 

 originally assigned to it ; the present species he altered to Epistro- 

 phus, one of the heroes of Homer's Trojan war. This correction 

 appears only in the Index Alphabeticus of the work, and unless 

 precisely pointed out, it is, from the obscurity of its situation, very 

 likely to escape observation. 



The figure in the work of Drury is confessedly coarse and 

 indifferent, and the colouring wholly destitute of that delicacy and 

 softness by which the insect is itself distinguished : the under surface 

 is not represented in that work, nor does the figure of either the 

 upper or the lower surface occur in any other within our present 

 recollection. 



