PLATE XLVIL 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Wings entire, deep black with blue spots : posterior pair be- 

 neath with sanguineous dots. 



Papilio Arethusus : alis integerrimis atris cseruleo maculatis : 

 posticis subtus punctis sanguineis. Fabr, Ent 

 Syst, T. S.p, 1. 43.77. 180. 



Papilio Arethusa Crajn, pap. 7. tab, 11. Jig* F. 



A native of Africa, and one of the most remarkable of its tribe. 

 The upper surface of this insect is a deep black, very closely studded 

 with spots of caerulean blue, disposed in pretty regular transverse 

 streaks, and producing altogether an appearance singularly picturesque 

 and of very unusual beauty. Beneath, its aspect is less peculiar, the 

 colour is black, the anterior wings immaculate, the posterior ones 

 spotted at the base and tip with scarlet. This, like the former, is an 

 insect of considerable scarcity. 



The upper figure in the annexed plate is that of Papilio Are- 

 thusus ; the lower ones exhibit the upper and under surface of Pa- 

 pilio Phalaris, and both are displayed upon a tuft of that beautiful 

 kind of African heath introduced from the Cape of Good Hope into 



