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ENTOMOLOGY. 



we are persuaded, furnish a sufficient apology for its introduction 

 into the present work, and its extreme rarity cannot fail to strengthen 

 its claim to notice. I 



This beautiful species, which is a native of Brazil, Fabricius 

 describes from a specimen in that invaluable repository of Entomo- 

 logical knowledge, the Banksian cabinet. There is, besides this, a 

 very choice example of the species which we have lately seen in the 

 rich cabinet of our good friend A. H. Haworth's, Esq. of Queen's 

 Elms, Chelsea. 



Papilio Numilius is an insect of superior size as well as beauty ; 

 the wings are black, with two large fulvous spots on the anterior 

 ones, and one on the posterior. There is also a blue space and three 

 triangular spots of the same colour disposed along the posterior 

 margin ; the prevailing colour beneath is yellowish brown with a dark 

 brown band across the anterior ones towards the tip. 



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