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Papilio Lesria : alls integerrimis fulvis: anticis puncto fusco, 

 omnibus subtus pallidis : puncto niveo. Fahr, 

 Ent. SysL T. S. 1. p. 208. n. 652. 



Papilio Lesbia is a lovely insect of the Danai tribe, and is of 

 extreme rarity, if not unique. It was found scarcely less than half 

 a century ago, upon the shores of Patagonia. The only example of 

 the species with which we are acquainted, and consequently that 

 from which the annexed figures are taken, constitutes a part of the 

 Banksian cabinet, and was copied by the kind permission of its ines- 

 timable founder during his lifetime for the purposes of our entomolo- 

 gical publications. 



It is material to mention this circumstance, because the natural- 

 ist will be aware that the only authority to which Fabricius refers 

 for his Papilio Lesbia is the Banksian cabinet, and it is of the first 

 importance on every such occasion to establish the identity of the 

 species upon the most indubitable authority. Fabricius has usually 

 referred to the drawings of Mr. Jones, when those included figures 

 of the insects he described, but which, in the present instance is 

 unintentionally omitted, for there is a drawing of the species in that 

 collection, taken from the same subject, and inscribed with its specific 

 name and character as it subsequently appeared in the Entomologia 

 Systematica of Fabricius. It is the authority of this manuscript, in 

 addition to the label annexed by Fabricius to the insect in the Bank- 

 sian cabinet that enables us to ascertain the species he intended beyond 

 the possibility of doubt. We can be under no apprehension of 



