PLATE XIX. 



insects which he describes, there are occasionally errors in this respect 

 it must be satisfactory to many of our readers to have corrected : 

 errors, which, owing to the lapse of time and death of those distin- 

 guished Naturalists which Fabricius had the happiness of meeting 

 with in England, we may venture to presume, without vanity, can 

 be now corrected only through the medium of our assistance. The 

 celebrity of Fabricius throughout Europe as one of the best informed 

 Entomologists of the last century, renders it even of no small import- 

 ance to correct the most trivial oversights he has committed ; and this 

 consideration will, we trust, afford us some apology for that minute- 

 ness, if not prolixity with which it may be requisite occasionally to 

 relate particulars of a local nature, in order to correct such errors. 

 An instance of this kind occurs in the note annexed to the Fabrician 

 description of the Papilio now before us ; in stating the local circum- 

 stances connected with its history, Fabricius says Habitat in America. 

 Dom Latham, There is obviously an oversight in this passage, 

 for we well know that the Fabrician description of this species was 

 taken from the figure in the series of drawings painted by Mr. Jones, 

 which has been already mentioned ; the original of the figure now 

 presented by us to the attention of our readers ; and that the speci- 

 men of the insect itself from which that painting was taken was pre- 

 served at the time Fabricius described it in the celebrated collection 

 of the late Mr. Dru Drury. A s we had the pleasure of Mr. Drury^s 

 acquaintance, as well as that of Mr. Jones, and had an unreserved 

 access to the information and cabinets of both, we are enabled to 

 speak upon this circumstance with confidence. The example of 

 Papiho Homerus in the cabinet of Mr. Drury was perfectly familiar 

 to us, it was ourselves who wrote the name Homerus^ annexed to this 

 insect in that cabinet ; and so far as our recollection serves at the 

 distant period of five and twenty years, Mr. Drury stated to us that 



