ENTOMOLOGY. 



Gmelin with the description of the species as we find introduced by 

 hira, into the last edition of the Linnaean Systema Naturae. 



The Fabrician description of this insect was taken in the first 

 instance, Syst, Ent, from a specimen in the Hunterian collection : 

 the same description occurs again in Spec. Ins, and lastly, in far 

 more copious detail in Eiit. Syst. This latter description given by 

 Fabricius, though by some oversight of its author, not indentified by 

 any reference with the drawings of Mr. Jones, was certainly derived 

 from that source of authority ; a point we have been enabled to 

 ascertain, both upon the kind information of our late worthy friend 

 Mr. Jones himself, and also from the manuscripts in the hand-writing 

 of Fabricius, which Mr. Jones was pleased to place in our hands, in 

 order to assure us, there could be no uncertainty in this respect from 

 any lapse of memory. Fabricius refers for his Papilio Eg^a to the 

 Hunterian cabinet. There was a specimen of this insect in that 

 collection, but it may not be improper to observe that the specimen 

 from which the drawing of this species, Papilio Egaea, by Mr. Jones, 

 was taken, as it appeared from these MSS. was one preserved in the 

 cabinet of Mr. Drury, the venerable author of a well known work on 

 Exotic insects, published towards the close of the last century. We 

 may also add, that this insect, with many others which Mr. Jones 

 had figured, and Fabricius had described, from that extensive and 

 valuable cabinet, devolved into our hands after the death of it^ 

 proprietor, the whole collection having been dispersed by public sale 

 in the month of May, 1805. 



We have been thus minute in the production of authorities, in 

 order to demonstrate that we have not ventured upon the hazard of 

 conjecture to submit the present figures as those of the true Papilio 

 Egaea of Fabricius ; and, consequently, of all later writers who have 



