PLATE XL. 



Papilio AmaliA: alls dentatis supra fuscis subtus flavis: postici* 

 strigls duabus punctisque caeruleis nigro notatisr 

 Fahr, Ent SysL T, d. jp, 1, 129. n. 398. 



The gaiety of this most curious and interesting Butterfly can 

 never fail to recommend it to the favourable attention of the amateur, 

 nor its rarity to the Entomologist. The upper surface is of a purplish 

 brown, changeable and glossed with a fulvous hue, and the posterior 

 wings marked with a series of fuscous dots. The surface beneath is 

 orange: near the extreme anterior angle are two contiguous blue 

 spots, and a dark fuscous spot of larger size. Across the posterior 

 wings are two bands of blue, and behind these a series of blue ovate 

 spots; the abdomen and the margin of the wings are also blue. 

 The middle of the blue bands across the disk is traversed by a some- 

 what interrupted line of black, while the blue spots have a black dot 

 in the centre of each ; and it is not unworthy of observation that the 

 black central points in this series of blue spots upon the lower wings 

 appear again upon the upper surface, forming the series of brown 

 dots before described. 



Papilio Amalia is a native of Sierra Leona. The drawing of 

 this species in the collection of Mr. Jones was taken from a specimen 

 in the cabinet of that celebrated collector Mr. Drury, as appears 

 from the references of Mr. Jones, as well as those of Professor 

 Fabricius. From the original manuscripts of Mr. Drury, now in 

 our possession, it appears that all the species of this family of the 

 Papilio tribe, without any exception, which his cabinet contained, 

 had been collected at Sierra Leona by the intelligent traveller 



