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PLATE XXIX 



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Papilio TroS: alis dentato caudatis coiicoloribus nigris : anticis 



fascia abbreviata alba, posticis sanguinea macu- 

 lari. Fahr, EnL Si/sL T. 3. ^. 1. 10. 30. 

 Jon > Jig. pict, 1. tab. S3. 



The tribe of Butterflies to which the PapiUo now before us 

 appertains, includes many of the larger and more interesting species 

 of the Papiliones known. This tribe, as its designation implies, has 

 been dedicated by Entomologists to the memory of the more distin- 

 guished worthies of the Trojan race, and above others to preserve 

 the memory of those heroes whose exploits in the defence of that rich 

 and potent station of the ancient world, the town of Troy, has been 

 commemorated in the Iliad by the immortal Homer. Our present 

 species refers indeed to a Trojan of an earlier period ; it is named 

 after Tros, the founder of the Trojan name. Tros was the fifth 

 king of the Trojan dynasty, from its first establishment in the person 

 of Scamander, and the last but three ; the destruction of Troy being 

 accomplished under the reign of Priam. The country before the 

 time of Tros was called Dardania, from Dardanus, who is usually 

 stiled the first of the Trojan kings, though in Phrygia he was 

 preceded by Scamander and Teucer. Tros lived about fourteen 

 hundred years before the Christian Era, and reigned king of Troy 

 for the space of sixty years. It is in honour of this Trojan Monarch 

 that Fabricius has given the present insect the name of Papilio Tros. 



There are several Papiliones which bear a nearer or more distant 

 resemblance to this Papilio, a circumstance that will impose some 

 caution upon the Entomologist before he can venture to pronounce 



