lepidoptera. 
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NYMPH. GEMM . 
PAPILIO ABEONA. 
SPECIFIC CHAPvACTER. 
Wings indented, fufeous: on the anterior wings a teftaceous band and two eyes: on the pofterior pair an 
eye above and two beneath. 
Papilio Aeeona : alis dentatis fufeis, anticis fafeia teftaceo ocellis duobus pofticis fupra ocello, 
fubtus duobus. 
There are few infedts more ftriking in appearance than Papilio Abeona. This appears to be one of 
the more common fpecies of the Butterfly tribe in many parts of the Auftralafian regions: we receive it 
in this country not very unfrequently among other infedts from the vicinity of the Englifh fettlements at 
Port Jackfon. 
It excites fome furprife with us, that although a painting of this fine infedi exifted among the drawings 
of our worthy friend William Jones, Efq. of Chelfea, at the time Fabricius was in this country, he fliould 
either by accident or defign have omitted mentioning it, fince he had an unreferved accefs to thofe 
drawings, and was indebted folely to them for his deferiptions of nearly all the new fpecies of the Papilio 
Genus included in his Species Infectorum and Entornologia Syjlematica . The fpecies therefore has 
hitherto remained undeferibed, and without a name. 
PAPILIO ACANTHA. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings indented, fulvous, fafeiated with fufeous: upper furface with an eye on the firft wings5 on the 
fecond two, of which the anterior one is fmaller. 
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