PLATE XXXV. 



Papilio Belladonna: aiis oblongis integerrimis atris : anticis 



hyalino punctatis, posticis flavo maculatis. Fahr. 

 Ent. Syst. T. S. p. 1. p. 180. 



Papilio Belladonna. Jon, jig. pict. 3. tab, QTl^Jig, 2. 



Statura P. Pasithoe at major. Corpus nigrum abdominis mar- 

 ginibus cinereis. Alae atrae, cinereo punctate. Subtus concolores 

 at lineola maculaque baseos albis. Posticae atrse, flavo maculatse 

 maeula baseos angulique ani majoribus. Subtus fere concolores. 



A figure of this very rare and probably unique insect cannot fail, 

 it is presumed, of proving an acceptable addition to the collectanea 

 of the Entomologist : it is the only representation of the species now 

 extant, and has been ascertained upon the authority of the only 

 document we now possess of the insect intended in the Fabrician 

 writings under the appellation of Papilio Hel. Belladonna. 



Fabricius, as it appears from his references in his Entomologia 

 Systematica, met with the drawings of this species in the collection 

 of Mr. Jones, whose cabinet also possessed the original specimen 

 from which the drawing was taken. It is from this individual 

 example in the cabinet of Mr. Jones that the delineation in the 

 annexed plate is copied. 



This curious Papiho is one of the larger species of the Helicon! 

 tribe to which it appertains. The wings are a blueish black, and 

 rather closely studded with sub-hyaline or transparent spots, which 



