PLATE XL. 



PapilioCiprIS: alis subcaudatis flavis : margine nigro punctato. 



Fahr. Ent. Sijst, T. 3. p. L p. 212. 663. 

 Jon.Jig.picU 3. U 39.^: L 



The Entomologist will be aware that Papilio Cipris is one among 

 the number of those very interesting species of the Papilio tribe which 

 has been made known to the scientific world through the medium of 

 the Fabrician writings, not having been previously noticed by any 

 author, nor subsequently mentioned by any other except upon the 

 authority of Fabricius. It will be also seen upon a reference to those 

 writers by whom it is described, that there is no figure of the species 

 extant, and that it is consequently known from description only ; a 

 circumstance that must render any delineation of it valuable that can 

 be confided in. That reliance may be placed implicitly in the repre- 

 sentation now before us : it is a faithful copy of the individual 

 example depicted by Mr. Jones in his collection of drawings, from 

 which the Fabrician description was taken, and to which his writings 

 exclusively refer, and for this reason there can be no distrust as to 

 its identity.* 



This elegant Butterfly is of moderate size, and is most remarkable 

 for the elongation of the posterior angle of the lower wings into a kind 

 of tail. The superior surface of the wings are yellow, immaculate 



* Professor Gmelin lias omitted to insert either Papilio Cipris or the 

 other subject of our plate, Papilio Amalia, in his edition of Systema Naturae: 

 both have, however, been very properly added in the English Translation, 

 by Dr. Turton, upon the authority of Fabricius. 



