PLATE LXXXIL 



The reader may rest assured that a more interesting species 

 of the insect tribe than that which is submitted in the annexed 

 plate has not appeared in the present work. It is an insect that 

 in its general appearance bears a strong resemblance to Papilio Leo- 

 liidas, but on a very slight comparison of the two insects they will be 

 perceived to differ materially, for they are in reality specificadly dif- 

 ferent notwithstanding this similitude. Papilio Leonidas^ is to be 

 met with in the work of Cramer, but the present is not ; this latter is 

 a Fabrician species^ and is described in Entomologica Systematica of 

 that author, from a specimen in the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, 

 and from the drawings in the collection of the late Mr. Jones. It is 

 upon the authority of Mr. Jones, with the assistance of the original 

 drawings and the Fabrician manuscripts by which they are accom- 

 panied, as well as the specimen in the cabinet of the late Mr. Drury, 

 that we have identified the species beyond any possibility of doubt ; 

 and it may be also added, that the figures which are now presented 

 to the reader are faithful copies of the original drawings which 

 Fabricius describes. 



We are induced to mention those particular circumstances the 

 more precisely, because the present insect has lately been admitted by 

 some continental naturalists of great respectability, as a new species, 

 under the name of Papilio Latreillii. We entirely allow that the 

 great talents of M. I^atreille, as an Entomologist, had eminently 

 entitled him to such a testimony of respect, but the comphment has 

 evidently been very unintentionally bestowed at the expence of an 



* Under the name of P. Similis, t. 1. p. 9. /. B. C. There is also some 

 resemblance in this insect to P. Agamemnon. 



