PLATE LXXXVI. 



Papilio Rhodope : alls rotundatis integerrimis sub-concoloribus 

 externis nigris anticis flavis posticis albis. Fab. 

 Syst. Ent, 473. 130.— 5p. Ins. 2. p. 44. 184. 



Simplicity is the peculiar character of this rare and interesting 

 species; the deep fulvous colour of the anterior wings form a striking 

 contrast to the pure or snowy whiteness of the posterior pair, while 

 the extreme series of subconfluent spots of the deepest black form a 

 distinct and appropriate margin round the whole. Its appearance, 

 therefore, is not without attraction in point of elegance, and its 

 claims to the attention of the Naturalist are further strengthened by 

 its rarity, nor will its figure fail to prove acceptable, we may presume, 

 when it is further added that it is one of those Fabrician species that 

 has remained on record before the scientific world for nearly half a 

 century past, without the advantage of any pictorial elucidation to 

 assist the definition which that author has assigned to it. 



The first description of the species extant is to be found in the 

 Fabrician Sy sterna Entomologke, published so early as the year 1775, 

 and yet we may with confidence advance that the figure now sub- 

 mitted to the reader is the first delineation of the insect that has 

 hitherto met the public eye. The original example of the species 

 from which the Fabrician description was taken, and which has been 

 subsequently repeated in the diiferent Entomological writings of 

 Fabricius, was one among the number of those many rare kinds 

 which occurred to the observation of that indefatigable Entomologist 

 in the cabinet of the late Sir Joseph Banks, Bart, and we may also 



