PLATE XIX 



with many others of the more costly rarities into the cabmet of 

 Alexander Mc*Leay, Esq. S.L.S. &c. 



With respect to the Fabrician reference to the cabinet of 

 Dr. Latham, for it is to the cabinet of the venerable Ornithologist 

 of that name the reference applies, we believe it is also in our power 

 to explain its origin, having occasionally, through the kindness of its 

 proprietor, consulted that cabinet, and finally, in conformity with his 

 permission, written a catalogue of its contents. In that cabinet we 

 certainly observed a Papilio allied to P. Homerus, but yet so far 

 remote from it, that we could not venture to pronounce it the same ; 

 it may be a variety of the species, but is assuredly not the insect 

 painted by Mr. Jones to which the synonyms of Fabricius 

 allude. 



Papilio Homerus is represented in its natural size in the annexed 

 plate. Its colours are various and very beautifully disposed: the 

 ground or prevailing colour is a deep or dark brown with a broad 

 stripe of a yellowish hue across the middle of each wing, forming 

 very nearly a band of that peculiar kind distinguished among Natu- 

 ralists by the appellation of a common band. There is also a large 

 and somewhat quadrangular spot of the same flavous colour upon 

 the disk within and contiguous to the band^ and beyond, towards the 

 apex, a small sub-angular band composed of smaller flavous spots- 

 Behind the yellow band, across the disk of the posterior wings, are a 

 series of blue spots composed of many little shining points, which in 

 the aggregate form a distinct spot of an ovate form, most brilliant 

 towards the centre and paler towards the edge. And finally, there 

 are three distinct sublunate spots of red on each posterior wing, one 

 at the anal angle, and the other two at the posterior margin, one of 



