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he had received this individual specimen from the Island of Jamaica; 

 We are in possession of the Entomological manuscripts of this vene- 

 rable author, but among those we have in vain sought for any positive 

 confirmation of this distant recollection. It appears certain that 

 Mr. Drury had not entered it under the name of Homerus in his 

 catalogue after we had communicated that name to him ; and which 

 we did upon the authority of the Fabrician manuscripts annexed to 

 the drawings of Mr. Jones. At the time Mr. Drury received this 

 insect from his correspondent it was assuredly a nameless species, and 

 was probably entered as such, with a number only ; such omissions in 

 the nomenclature being, of course, usual when the species proved 

 to be undescribed, till proper names could be assigned to them. A 

 gentleman of the name of Keuchan, and another of the name of 

 Whiting, appear from these entries to be the only correspondents 

 who furnished Mr, Drury with Papiliones of Jamaica; it was probably 

 from the former that he obtained this majestic species; and that 

 Mr. Drury obtained it about the year 1777. This habitat would 

 justify Fabricius in describing the insect as a native of America, 

 although if the conclusion be correct, it might have been stated more 

 distinctly as a native of that island. 



At the dissolution of the fine collection of that indefatigable 

 Entomologist, Mr. Drury, which took place by public sale in the 

 month of May, 1805, this beautiful insect was purchased by 

 another very eminent collector, Mr. John Francillon, at the price 

 of four pounds sterling^^ and subsequently at the death of this last 

 mentioned individual, which happened in the year 1817, it passed 



* Lot 305, third day, Saturday, May 25th, 1805. 



