PLATE XIX. 



Papilio Homerus : alis caudatis nigris: fascia flava posticis subtus 



flavescentibiis : maculisocellaribusseptem.— 

 Ent. Syst. T. 3. p. 1. 29. 85. 



Papilio Homerus: Jon. fig.pict, 1. tab, 8» 



Corpus magnum nigrum. Alas anticae supra nigrae fascia macu- 

 lari maculisque apicis flavis, Subtus anticae concolores, at macula 

 aplcis tantum unica, marginalis, albida posticae fuscae, fascia media 

 pallida maculis septem ocellaribus, atris iride rufa. 



In the present instance, as in many others that will occur 

 during the progress of this undertaking, we have the pleasure of 

 introducing to the attention of the Naturalist, a species of the Papilio 

 tribe, no less distinguished for its beauty than its rarity ; and one, 

 moreover, that has never been before depicted in the work of any 

 author. 



This magnificent Papilio, for to this appellation it is entitled 

 truly, was one among the number of those rarities of the insect race 

 which Fabricius met with in the Entomological Cabinets of the Eng- 

 lish Naturalists, when he paid a visit to this country about the year 

 1792, and the descriptions of which constitute a most invaluable and 

 extensive portion of the work which he published subsequently upon 

 the continent, under the title of Entomologia Systematica. Fabricius 

 saw the drawing of this insect in the Collectanea of Paintings formed 

 by the ingenious hand of that indefatigable and. liberal Naturalist 

 the late William Jones, Esq. of Chelsea, and was so delighted with 



