BLACK AND YELLOW 
SWALLOW-TAIL. 
"This beautiful Butterfly is of English pro- 
dudlion. It was first figured by Edwards, 
from a subje61: sent to him out of Norfolk. 
The body," says he, "is of a dusky colour. 
The upper wings are yellow and dusky, with 
some black in the divisions, best expressed by 
the figure. The lower wings are also yellow, 
with some blue and black, with a round red 
spot on each wing.'* 
Moses Harris seems to have figured and de- 
scribed this Butterfly, in his celebrated Aure- 
lian, under the simple name of the Swallow- 
rail. In this, however, the round red spot 
Hentioned by Edwards, has a segment of 
ibout one-third of a blueish colour. The 
lusky parts are also blacker. Besides the red, 
)r red and blue, spot in each wing, the Male, 
iccording to Harris, has two oblong spots, or 
tiarkings, of red, on the under side of each 
jnder wing. 
J On the 10th of September 1760, Mr. Har- 
ris received, from the Rev. Mr. Ray, of 
f^edland, near Bristol, several Swallow-Tailed 
faterpillars. He fed them on Carrot Greens, 
, which 
