CHINESE WHITE, BLACK, AND 
RED, BUTTERFLY. 
This £m large White, Black, and Red 
Butterfly, is a native of China. It was origi- 
nally figured by Edwards, from the Fly ; which 
It that time, was in the colle£lion of Robert 
Nesbitt, M. D. Fellow of the Royal College 
-)£ Physicians, London, and of the Royal So- 
ciety. 
The head, body, antennas, and legs, are of a 
)lackish colour. The upper sides of the wings 
ire of a yellowish white ; except the tips, and 
puter ridges of the longer wings, which are 
i)lack, having some oblong spots of red or deep 
)range, inclosed in the black, and some black 
pots and streaks inclosed again by the red spots. 
jPhe under side of the larger wing is half 
vhite next the body ; the remainder, toward 
he tip, of a brownish colour, a little mixed 
)r clouded with dusky. The under side of the 
jhorter vv^ing is of a dirty white, or brownish 
;olour, with a broken, confused, transverse^ 
;mail mixture, of a darker brown or dusky 
;:olour. 
