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and the oth©r the lower one ; these were copied by himself from the 

 original insect in the cabinet of Mr. Urury, and as it appears on 

 collating the notes of Mr. Jones with the manuscripts of Mr. Drury, 

 now in our possession, those drawings were taken very shortly after 

 the insect had been received in England, and previous to the 

 drawing made for the work of Mr. Drury by Moses Harris. The work 

 of Mr. Drury affords moreover only one figure of this insect, which 

 is that of the upper surface ; the drawings of Mr. Jones presents 

 us with the figure of the lower surface as well as the upper, and the 

 difference, though not very remote, must be esteemed worthy of our 

 attention, when the scarcity of the insect is considered. 



The habitat of this species is particularly noticed by Mr. Drury ; 



I received it," says the author, " from Sierra Leon, in Africa," 

 and further adds " that it is an undoubted non-descript." From 

 the manuscripts of Mr. Drury we find that he had received 

 this insect from Mr. Smeathman in the year 1775. Among other 

 general remarks we have also a note upon this subject from which it 

 appears that many of the African Papiliones in the collection of 

 Mr. Drury, were communicated by Mr. Henry Smeathman, an 

 assiduous and very intelligent naturalist, who was stationed at that 

 period in Sierra Leone. From the observations of Mr. Smeathman 

 it may be imagined that this insect is not unfrequent in that particular 

 part of Africa, but that its capture is attended with considerable 

 difiiculty, as well from the manner of its flight as the time when it 

 appears on the wing ; it is seen onJy in mid-day, when every exertion 

 under the direct influence of a vertical sun must be painful to an 

 European. Its flight is also remarkable for its velocity, and to 

 increase the difficulty of taking it^ the insect frequents only the upper 



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