PLATE XII. 



Parvus. Alae omnes supra nigra?, basi cyaneo nitentes, in medio 

 fascia communi anteriorum interrupta^ alba. Maculae duae parvse, 

 albae versus apicem alag anterioris ; subtus anticae fuscae maculis 

 albis lunulaque media, ferruginea. Posticae basi fasciis albis fuscisque 

 alternis disco niveo, macula biloba, fusca, et in hac ocelli duo atri^ 

 iride ferruginea pupillaque magna, cjanea. Margo posticus flaves- 

 cens. Fabr, Ent. Syst. T. 3. jo. 1. 309. 



We have much pleasure in assuring our readers that the present 

 figures of this very elegant and rare Papilio, are the first that have 

 appeared in illustration of the species. This becomes the more 

 incumbent to observe, because those figures afford an elucidation of 

 some moment at least, to the writings of an Entomologist of acknow- 

 ledged eminence, the late Professor Fabricius : he had described the 

 species in his several works as above adverted to, under the name of 

 Papilio Egaea, but these descriptions have remained before the 

 learned world for nearly half a century without any pictorial illustra- 

 tion. The existence of such a species is therefore well known, but 

 from description only, and this circumstance, it is presumed, will 

 tend to confer more real interest upon the figures now produced, than 

 if it had been entirely undescribed, because, heretofore, a deficiency 

 has been in this respect perceived ; and that deficiency is now supplied 

 by the figures submitted to our readers in the annexed plate. 



The first description of this species, as already intimated, to be 

 found among authors, is that given by Fabricius in his Systematica 

 Entomologia : subsequently it appeared in his work entitled Species 

 Insectorum^ and lastly in his Entomologia Systematica^ as inserted 

 among our synonyms. It is these authorities that have supplied 



