ENTOMOLOGY. 



Papilio MarcellinA : alis integris rotundatis flavis : siugrdlis 



subtus puncto gemino argenteo. — Fahr. Spec. 

 Ins. 2. 49. n. 2U.~-Ent, Sysf. t. 3, p. 1. 20^;, 

 654.— Cram. 14, t. 165. 



Papilio Marcellina is a butterfly of peculiar simplicity and 

 beauty in its general effect. The upper surface is of a fine yellow 

 with a singular subocellate spot or stigma of a reddish brown in the^ 

 centre of the anterior wings, and a series of double spots of the same 

 colour, disposed towards the exterior margin both of the anterior 

 and the posterior pair. The lower surface, as we perceive from the 

 Butterfly at rest, with the wings erect in the upper part of the 

 plate, is rather more of an orange or fulvous hue, and instead of 

 having the disk immaculate like the upper surface, except the stigma 

 in the anterior wings, are sprinkled with reddish brown. The cen- 

 tre of the wings, as well the posterior as the anterior pair, are 

 marked with two silver spots, and which, from their near approxima- 

 tion, may be denominated, according to the language of Fabricius,, 

 a geminous or double spot of silver. 



This elegant insect is figured from a specimen in the collection 

 of the celebrated Dr. Hunter, the individual example described and 

 referred to by Fabricius in his Species Insectorum and Entomolo- 

 (jia Systematica as expressed among the synonyms above recited. 



The Papilio Marcellina has appeared already in the costly work 

 of Cramer, upon the Papiliones tribe, we are nevertheless induced 

 to present a figure of the species to our readers, in order to point 

 out the very close affinity that prevails between this insect and 



