ENTOMOLOGY 



upon the species with decision : its characters are nevertheless suffi- 

 ciently conspicuous, and when examined with due attention, enables 

 us to determine the species from its nearest approximations, in a 

 clear and satisfactory manner. The wings are dark above as well as 

 beneath, the deeper colouring prevailing, however, on the upper 

 surface as well as beneath ; the anterior wings are marked with a 

 brdad abbreviated whitish band, and the lower wings with a large 

 sanguineous or blood red spot of considerable magnitude. This 

 sanguineous spot from lying in the disk of the wing is traversed and 

 divided by the black nerves of the wing in such a manner as to 

 appear in the form of six distinct oblong spots, placed laterally to 

 each other : these spots appear also on the lower surface, in the same 

 form as above, but the colour is rather paler. 



As there is no figure extant of this large and fine Papilio in the 

 work of any author, the delineation which we have the pleasure on 

 this occasion to submit before our readers will doubtlessly be viewed 

 with peculiar satisfaction. It need be only added that the species 

 has been definitively determined upon the authority of Mr. Jones's 

 collection of original drawings, to which Fabricius so constantly 

 refers, and that for this reason its specific appellation may be 

 implicitly upon by the scientific Entomologist. 



This interesting Papilio is a native of Brazil. 



