ENTOMOLOGY. 



PLATE LXXVII. 



PAPILIO BRUTUS . 

 BRUTUS BUTTERFLY 



Lepidoptera. 



generic character. 



Antennae thicker towards the tip and usually terminating in a 

 club : wings erect when at rest. Fly by day. 



P. Equites Achivi. 



• SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



Wings tailed and white, border black : posterior pair with a 

 brown band beneath. 



PapiLIO Brutus : alis caudatis albis: limbo nigro, posticis subtus 

 fascia fusca. Fahr, Ent, S/jst. t. S. p. 1. 

 J). 22. m 65. 



This is a species of the second family of Equites, and is as well 

 in point of magnitude as in the singular and very decided disposition 

 of its colours, an object too remarkable to be unworthy of particular 



