ENTOMOLOGY. 



FIG. 11. 



PAPILIO NUMILIUS 

 NUMILIUS BUTTERFLY. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae thicker towards the tip, and usually terminating in a 

 kind of club : wings erect when at rest. Fly by day. 



P. Festivi. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 

 AND 

 SYNONYMS. 



Wings entire black : anterior wings with two fulvous spots : 

 posterior ones with a single spot. 



Papilio Numilius: alis integerrimis atris : anticis maculis dua- 

 bus, posticis unica fulvis. Fahr. Ent» Si/s^t. 

 ^. 3. 1. 53. 164. 



This species, which is represented in the upper part of our 

 plate, is an insect of great beauty, and appearance the most singular. 

 It has not confessedly the same claim to the consideration of the 

 scientific naturalist as the preceding, because it has appeared already 

 in the work of Cramer ; the gaiety of its appearance will, however. 



