PLATE XXVII. 



Papilio Zacynthus : alls dentatis nigrls: anticis macula viridi 



alba, posticis palmata sanguinea. — Fabr, Ent. 

 Syst, T. 3. f. 1, p, 15. n. 46. 



Papilio Zacynthus. — Jon.Jig. picL 1 tab, 22. 



It cannot fail to prove satisfactory to the Naturalist to be in- 

 formed that we have the same sanction for presenting the annexed 

 figure as that of the true Papilio Zacynthus of Fahricius^ as 

 that to which we have several times adverted upon other similar 

 occasions in the progress of the present publication, namely the hand- 

 writing of that celebrated Entomologist, inscribed upon the original 

 drawings of Mr. Jones. This is indeed a circumstance to which we 

 cannot advert too frequently in our references, since it is upon that 

 authority alone that we are now enabled to determine with any degree 

 of precision nearly the whole of those new species of Papiliones, the 

 existence of which has been made known throughout Europe by the 

 classic writings of that author, but of which no other evidence is now 

 extant; for most of the collections existing at the time Fabricius was 

 in England, and to which he refers, have been long since dispersed, 

 and but for the care of the late Mr. Jones of Chelsea, who had 

 preserved these invaluable authorities to the scientific world, the 

 labours even of Fabricius in this department had become compara- 

 tively of very little value. 



Papilio Zacynthus is a species of the first family of Papiliones, 

 the Equites Trojani. It has much the habit of Papilio ^Eneas, a 

 well known insect, described by Linnaeus, and which is figured by 

 Roesel, Seba, Jablonsky, and some other authors ; but upon an 

 attentive comparison it will be found to be very different. Its great 



