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ARTAXERXES BUTTERFLY. 
drawing by Mr Jones of Chelsea. It was long 
much valued by the English collectors, some of 
whom, we are informed by Donovan, were in the 
habit of placing a drawing of the insect in an ob- 
scure corner of their drawers, that their cabinet 
might obtain credit for possessing an object of such 
rarity ! Others undertook a journey to Edinburgh, 
chiefly with the view of procuring specimens. It 
occurs in such plenty on Arthur’s Seat, that all the 
English cabinets, and the principal foreign ones, are 
now abundantly supplied from that locality. It has 
likewise been taken among the Pentland Hills, at 
Flisk in Fifeshire, near Queensferry, and in the vi- 
cinity of Jardine Hall, Dumfriesshire. It appears in 
July. The examination of an extensive series of 
specimens of the two preceding insects, will pro- 
bably lead most people to the belief, that the marks 
which have caused them to be regarded as specifi- 
cally different, are far from being stable or satisfac- 
tory. The appearance of the caterpillars, both of 
which are unknown, will afford the most likely 
means of determining the point. 
