PLATE LIII. 



Papilio Elorea is one among the number of those Fabrician 

 species which we are persuaded can be at this time identified with 

 certainty only by ourselves, for it is not too much to assert that every 

 other document, with the solitary exception of our own drawing, 

 have disappeared in the lapse of time from the reach of science. 

 Fabricius described the species from an example in the cabinet of the 

 late Mr. Jones ; and who, besides possessing the specimen, had de- 

 lineated the insect in a most accurate manner in his collection of 

 paintings. Both the insect and the drawing were labelled by Fa- 

 bricius in his own hand-writing at the desire of Mr. Jones, and it was 

 from those authorities that the figures were taken which are now 

 submitted to the reader. 



This insect is of the smaller size, the upper surface white with 

 the costal rib and exterior margin black. The head, thorax, 

 and abdomen blackish, and a black spot and series of black dots 

 disposed along the posterior margin. Beneath, the colour of this 

 fly is rather more inclining to blueish than above, and is marked 

 with five distinct black spots, or dots, of a rounded form, one of 

 which is placed on the main rib of the anterior pair, another con- 

 tiguous to the main rib of the posterior ones, and three equidistant 

 black spots at the margin. 



