PLATE XCVII. 



Mr. Jones, for the only description of it to be found extant is in the 

 writings of Fabricius and its only figure among those drawings. 

 The species is a native of South America, and was originally pre- 

 served in the cabinet of Mr. Drury, subsequently this rarity came 

 into our own possession, Fabricius refers for the specimen he des- 

 cribes to the cabinet of Dr. Hunter, in which there may perhaps be 

 other examples of the same insect, but we are well assured from the 

 Fabrician MS. that the description of the species which he has left 

 us was taken from the drawing in the collection of Mr. Jones, and 

 that this drawing was copied from the specimen in the cabinet of 

 Mr. Drury, to which we have adverted. 



The beauty of this interesting Butterfly will sufficiently recom- 

 mend it to the notice of the entomologist, nor can its figure prove in 

 the least degree unacceptable, since it is so obviously from this 

 authority alone that the species can be distinctly ascertained. The 

 The learned naturalists of Europe have been long since assured of 

 the existence of such a species through the writings of Fabricius, a 

 circumstance which it must be presumed will render a faithful pic- 

 torial illustration of the species of greater moment than if the species 

 had remained nnnoticed or entirely unknown ^till the present period. 



