PLATE XLIV. 



upper ; the prevailing colour is green, except at the anterior half of 

 the first pair, which is brown. There is a narrow white stripe, and 

 a series of five black spots on the anterior pair ; across the posterior 

 ones a broad and somewhat angular bicolorate band, the ground 

 colour being white, with a fiexuous crimson stripe and marginal line, 

 and an intermediate lentiform spot of the same colour. 



This insect is no less rare than beautiful, and is a native of 

 South America. The figure of the upper and lower surface, as well 

 as those of Papilio Phocides, are displayed in the annexed plate upon 

 a sprig of 



ERICA TETRAGONA, SQUARE-FLOWERED HEATH, 



a native of the cape, from whence it was introduced into Eugland in 

 the year 1789, by Mr. F. Masson. 



