ENTOMOLOGY 



spots ; aud beyond this is another hyaline spot about the same size as 

 the larger one of the two transparent spaces of which the first-men- 

 tioned spot consists. The posterior part of the wing is further 

 marked with two bands of the same transparent texture as the others, 

 each consisting of three distinct spots. The lower wings present a 

 larger transparent space than the upper wings, the whole disk being 

 hyaline with only the posterior limb or border opake, and of ablack 

 colour. The thorax and body is black. 



The hyaline spots as seen on the under side are of the same size 

 and form as they appear above, but the opake spaces instead of being 

 uniformly black as on the upper surface, are agreeably diversified 

 with rufous and geminous dots of white : these double white dots 

 are situated on the black border at the tips of the wings, three on 

 that of the anterior pair, and three on that of the posterior ones. 



From the very close analogy that prevails between this and 

 several other species of the same tribe, it would, no doubt, have been 

 a matter of considerable difficulty at this time to determine the 

 Fabrician species Papilio Hippodamia with precision, if we had not 

 possessed the means of reference to the Fabrician manuscripts, and the 

 drawings in which it is delineated ; for it has remained to this period 

 unfigured by any author. It will be observed that Fabricius does 

 not refer for this species to the Collectanea of Mr. Jones, as in many 

 other instances. The cause of this omission will admit of a very 

 easy explanation ; Fabricius had seen the insect in the first instance 

 in the cabinet of M. Mauduit, at Paris, to which he has referred. 

 But subsequently when in England he found a drawing of the insect 

 in the collection of Mr. Jones, and inscribed the name and character 

 of the species upon the drawing, as it afterwards appeared in his 



