GOLDEN EMPEROR. 
This grand and beautiful Butterfly, was ori- 
ginally figured by Mr. Drury, of it's natural 
l iize, among his excellent delineations and de- 
ceptions of Exotic Insects. 
The Butterfly, was brought from China; 
}f which country it is a native, but supposed 
:o be not, even there, very common. 
I The insect from which Mr. Dairy's fine 
Irawing was taken, belonged to the collection 
of Mr. May ; and it was from that gentleman 
that it obtained the name of the Golden Em- 
jperor, which has been universally adopted by 
subsequent Aurelians. 
There is no English Butterfly, and there are 
ibtit few foreign ones, even in the most luxuri- 
ant climes, which may be at all compared with 
the Golden Emperor; such, indeed, is it's ex- 
quisite beauty, that it is confessed, by all who 
I have ever seen it, to be the most superlatively 
I handsome Butterfly they had ever beheld. 
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