PLATE LXXI. 



The present plate is dedicated to the representation of a species of 

 the Papilio tribe, which does not appear in the work of any author. 

 Although of the minor size and obscure appearance, it is an insect of 

 no inconsiderable interest; it is a described Linnaean species of 

 which no figure is previously extant, and for this reason cannot fail 

 to prove an acceptable article in elucidation of the works of that 

 inestimable naturalist, since it could only be before known from the 

 very concise description which appears in the above quotation. Our 

 figures it should be added, is copied from the individual specimen 

 described by Linnaens, in the Linnaean cabinet, which is at this time 

 in the possession of Sir James Edward Smith, President of the 

 Linnaean Society. The late Mr, Jones, of Chelsea, had taken a 

 drawing of this insect, by permission of its worthy proprietor, and 

 it is from this drawing of Mr. Jones that our present figures are 

 copied. 



It appears from the Catalogue of Natural History, in the Museum 

 of the Queen of Sweden, written by Linnaeus, as above referred to, 

 that there was a specimen of this insect in that collection, and we 

 further learn from the same work that it had been brought by 

 Tulbagh from the Cape of Good Hope, the country it inhabits. 



The figures which appear in the annexed plate may render any 

 minute description of this curious insect superfluous; they afford 

 delineations as well of the lower as superior surface, and may be 

 found of some utility in the illustration of a species which Linnaeus 

 has described in a few words onI3^ The Fabrician description is no 

 other than a repetition of that of Linnaeus, and must lead us to the 

 conclusion that the insect itself was known to him only through the 

 Linnaean writings. 



