PLATE LXXVII. 



attention. The superior surface is entirely of a pale or yellowish 

 white of peculiar delicacy, the spots deep black and forming altogether 

 a striking contrast with the ground colour on which they are dis- 

 posed. The colour beneath is darker than on the upper surface, 

 being tinted with brown and llneated with the same of a darker hue ; 

 the posterior margin is also brown as well as a broad band across the 

 middle of the posterior wings. 



Fabricius describes this interesting insect as a native of Africa, 

 from a specimen in the Banksian cabinet. Before that period the 

 insect was however known, for it occurs in the works of Cramer ; 

 this author gave in the first instance a figure of Papilio Brutus from 

 a mutilated example, in which the caudal appendages of the wings 

 were wanting, and consequently it appears in his work without those 

 appendages^, but in a subsequent plate he gave another figure of 

 the insect in which that defect is corrected -f*. This species, which at 

 the time Cramer published it appears to have been extremely rare 

 and little known, has now become not very uncommon, since it occurs 

 in most entomological cabinets of any considerable extent. 



We should not in describing Papilio Brutus omit to notice that 

 there is a variety of this insect found in the island of Madagascar 

 which is very scarce ; it is distinguished from the usual variety of 

 equinoctial Africa by having the black spots, which compose the band 

 across the posterior wings, confluent or united into nearly an 

 uninterrupted band, while in the usual variety the connexion is 

 broken or separated by the pale colour of the posterior limb of the 

 disk, across which this band is disposed. In other respects no 

 material difference is observable between the African species and 

 that which inhabits the island of Madagascar. 



* Plate 151. 



t Plate 378. 



