LE P IDOPTERA. 
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EQU. ACHIF. 
PAPILIO iEGEUS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennae terminating a club; wings when at reft ereft. Fly in the day time. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings fomewhat tailed and'black: half the anterior pair cinereous: pofterior ones with an unequal 
yellowilh band: and blue, and red lunules. 
Papilio JEgeus: 
alis fubcaudatis nigris: 
flavefcenti. 
anticis diroidio cinerelcentibus, pofticis fafcia inaequali 
lunulis cyaneis rubrifque. 
This magnificent fpecies of Papilio which is perfectly undefcribed, was not received till very lately in 
this country from New South Wales. The fpecimen from whence the figures in the annexed plate are 
delineated is in the poffeffion of A. Macleay, Efq. Since the drawing was taken we have obtained a 
butterfly of the fame fpecies that accords moft completely with the fpecimen above-mentioned. W e are 
to confider this and the following fpecies as two of the moft valuable acquifitions the entomologifts have 
hitherto obtained from the Auftralafian regions. 
