ENTOMOLOGY. 



desiderata of the Entomologist, and when it is added^ as it may be 

 with perfect confidence, that the figure now presented to the reader 

 is a faithful delineation of the individual specimen which Fabricius 

 has described, we must presume that it is not anticipating vainly to 

 believe it must prove acceptable to every Naturalist of this and every 

 other nation where the science is esteemed : the labours of Fabricius 

 as an Entomologist are held in too much regard in every enlightened 

 country to allow any opinion to the contrary. 



Papilio Marica is a native of Africa. Fabricius met with it in 

 the Banksian Cabinet. It was from the specimen in that Cabinet, 

 the only one perhaps he ever saw, that the description of the species 

 which now appears in the Fabrician writings was taken, and as it has 

 been already intimated, it is from the same subject, through the kind 

 permission of its late worthy possessor that we are now enabled to 

 present our readers with the figure of it ; a circumstance that can 

 leave no doubt respecting the identity of the species. Our good 

 friend, Mr. Jones of Chelsea, had also made a drawing of the same 

 subject, to which Fabricius adverts in his usual manner by a reference 

 to Mr. Jones's drawings: Papilio Marica is represented in the first 

 plate of the Fifth Volume of that collection, Jon, pict. 5. tab. 1. 



This fine Papilio, when the wings are expanded, measures about 

 four inches and a half across the anterior pair, between the tips, and 

 in length from the apex of the head to the extremity of the posterior 

 wings, two inches and nearly one quarter. The head, thorax, and 

 body brown, the former marked with four distinct white points. 

 The anterior wings are a rich testaceous brown, blending towards 

 the middle into dusky, and becoming entirely black on the exterior 

 half. The middle of the wings is traversed by a broad irregularly 



