ENTOMOLOGY. 



Pesperia Pyramus: Fahr. Ent. Syst, t. 3. 1. 323. n. 223. 



Alae omnes fuscae, coeruleo micantibus : macula 

 magna, in medio fulva. Anticae, subtus conco- 

 lores, posticae grise^ sive cinereo fuscoque 

 variee. Fahr, 



Fabricius describes Papilio Pyramus as a new species of the 

 genus from the drawings of the late Mr. Jones, of Chelsea, a gentle- 

 man of fortune who had long devoted his attention to this peculiar 

 tribe of insects, the Papiliones, and whose labours tended in a very 

 eminent degree to aid those of Fabricius. In return for this 

 assistance, Fabricius affixed to each of those insects the names un- 

 der which they were destined afterwards to appear before the world, 

 a circumstance that may explain sufficiently the frequent references 

 of the Fabrician writings to those drawings, first in his Species In- 

 sectorum, and subsequently in his Entomologia Systematica, It 

 may be further added, that the whole of these drawings, together 

 with the manuscripts in the hand- writing of Fabricius were long in 

 our own possession, during the life-time of the very amiable pro- 

 prietor, Mr. Jones, for the very liberal purpose of copying and 

 making known to the public whatever might appear likely to us to 

 promote the interest and advantage of the Science of Nature ; and 

 that the insect now before us is one of those very rare species copied 

 for this purpose. 



The specimen from which the painting of Mr. Jones was taken 

 formed originally part of the collection of the lamented Mr. Yates, 

 the ingenious author of an English translation of the Linnaean Fun- 

 damenta Entomologia, that appeared about forty years ago, and 



