PLATE XVIII. 



Pap iLio AcAMAS: alis dentato caudatis concoloribus fuscis : 



anticis fascia flava, posticis limulis rubris caeruleis 

 flavisque. — Fabr. Ent. Syst, T. 3. p. 1. 8. 22. — 

 Jon, Jig. pict. ] . tab, 72. 



Papilio Acamas is one among the number of those Papiliones, 

 which, from their magnitude, as well as beauty, constitute the more 

 attractive species of the first family of this interesting tribe, the 

 Equites Trojani of the Fabrician system. Papiho Acamas is scarcely 

 surpassed in size by any other of the Papilio genus, and when it is 

 added, as it may be with confidence, that the figure now presented to 

 the reader is the first that has appeared in elucidation of such a noble 

 species, we cannot doubt that its introduction will be received with 

 pleasure by every Naturalist in this country and throughout Europe. 



This fine and very striking species has been long since known 

 by repute to Entomologists ; but from the description only which 

 Fabricius had left us in his Entomologia Systematica, Those 

 conversant with this work of our author, will be aware, that Papilio 

 Acamas constitutes one of those many species for which Fabricius 

 refers only to the drawings of the late Mr. J ones : the present figure 

 is a faithful copy of that original drawing referred to and described 

 by Fabricius, and as such cannot fail to prove acceptable to every 

 Entomologist. It is certainly the only figure extant by means of 

 which the Fabrician species P. Acamas can be ascertained. 



The identity of this species, it will hence appear, does not rest 

 upon opinion or conjecture, and this circumstance must be deemed 



