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only the panfy, Viola tricolor. It weaves a covering for 
itfelf, and remains fufpended by the tail; but it previoufly 
jwinds fome threads round its own body, probably to 
keep oft' flies and the ichneumon-infeft, which are its 
enemies. De Geer has omitted to notice this circum- 
ftance. The butterfly appears in its perfect ftate at the 
end of a fortnight. Fuelsly, from whom the above par¬ 
ticulars are taken, begins his “Archives upon the Hill, 
of Infefts” with a Diflertation upon this fpecies. It 
was long fuppofed to be a variety of the P. Aglaia. 
*47. Papilio Euphrofyne : wings indented, pale, ful¬ 
vous fpotted with black ; beneath with nine filvery fpots. 
248. Papilio Selene : wings indented, fulvous, fpotted 
with black; lower ones beneath, with twelve filvery 
fpots ; a diftinft black dot at the bafe and ftreak behind. 
This is found at Kiel. 
249. Papilio vanillae : wings indented, yellow fpotted 
with black ; thirty filvery fpots beneath. Inhabits Ame¬ 
rica, chiefly on the plant called Epidendrum vanilla, 
whence the name. This butterfly is Ihown in its perfect 
ftate on the Entomology, Plate I. fig. 6. vol. vi. two of 
its fecundated eggs are fhown magnified at fig. 9. and at 
fig. n. Plate II. is reprefented the caterpillar of the 
fame. 
250. Papilio Sophorae: wings entire, brown, with a fer¬ 
ruginous band ; lower ones beneath chefnut-brown, with 
two eyes. It inhabits America; and is reprefented on 
the upper part of the engraving of Mullera, vol. xvi. 
VI. Plebeii, or Common People. «. rurales, of the 
country. 
*51. Papilio Cupido : lower wings fix-toothed ; tailed; 
beneath whitilh, with filvery fpots. It inhabits America. 
2jz. Papilio Cnidus: wings fix-toothed, tailed, white, 
with a black border; lower ones with filvery fpots be¬ 
neath. A native of Surinam. 
253. Papilio Pythagoras: wings three-tailed, with a 
yellow border; beneath black, varied with white, and a 
white band in the middle. It inhabits India. 
254. Papilio Amor; wings three-tailed, brown, the 
dilk beneath variegated, and a golden ftreak behind on 
the lower ones. It inhabits India. 
255. Papilio Hefiodus : wings three-tailed, black with 
ablue dilk, beneath white, with a common greenilh ftreak, 
and two filvery dots at the angle of the tail. It is found 
in India. 
256. Papilio Timon : wings three-tailed, greenilh at 
the bafe; beneath white, with an abbreviated red band 
on the lower ones. It inhabits America ; a fpecimen is 
in Dr. Hunter’s mufeum. 
*57. Papilio Faunus: wings three-tailed, brown, be¬ 
neath white, with two fulvous ftreaks. It inhabits Africa. 
258. Papilio Hymen : wings three-tailed, brown, fpot¬ 
ted with white beneath ; upper pair white above. It in¬ 
habits Africa ; and is to be feen in fir Jofeph Banks’s mu¬ 
feum. 
259. Papilio Pindarus : wings nearly three-tailed, blue 
with a black border; beneath brown, with filvery and 
fulvous fpots. Inhabits India. 
260. Papilio Pelion: wings nearly three-tailed, blue 
with gold dots and a brown border. It inhabits Ame¬ 
rica. 
261. Papilio Vulcanus: wings two-tailed, above brown, 
with fulvous fpots ; beneath variegated with fulvous, 
yellow, and filvery ftreaks. It is a native of India. 
*62. Papilio Ganymedes : wings two-tailed, bluilh, 
with a brown border; beneath greenilh, at the bafe with 
gold dots. It inhabits India. 
*63. Papilio Mars: wings two-tailed, brown; lower 
ones with a rufous fpot and two white dots, and an ob¬ 
lique band beneath. A native of America. 
264. Papilio Ifocrates: wings two-tailed, brown, two 
approximate waved darker ftreaks, and a double black 
fpot at the angle of the tail. This and the two follow¬ 
ing are found in India, 
265. Papilio Atys: wings two-tailed, brown with a 
blue dilk : beneath cinereous with brown veins, the bafe 
with a fulvous fpot, and white dots. 
266. Papilio Sophocles : wings two-tailed, black, with 
a common blue dilk ; beneath white, with waved yellow- 
ilh ftreaks, the lower ones with a fulvous dot at the tip. 
267. Papilio Euripides: wings two-tailed, with a blue 
dilk; beneath browm, with an abbreviated white ftreak 
on the upper pair, and two angular rufous ftreaks and 
marginal ocellar fpots on the lower ones. 
268. Papilio Anacreon : wings two-tailed, brown ; be¬ 
neath waved with white, and a macular fulvous ftreak 
behind. This and the next fpecies are natives of India. 
269. Papilio Thales: wings two-tailed, black, with 
blue lunules beneath, lower ones beneath with an abbre¬ 
viated fub-marginal gold band. 
270. Papilio Endymion : wings two-tailed; beneath 
green, with rufous and gold lpecks ; lower ones with a 
black ftreak and red band. 
271. Papilio Venus: wings two-tailed ; lower furface 
of the upper pair green, fpeckled with gold ; of the lower 
ones gold, fpotted with green and black. There is a 
variety of this fpecies, of which the wings are three-tailed, 
bluifh, tipt with black ; beneath golden, fpeckled with 
black. 
272. Papilio Sphinx: wings two-tailed, bluilh; be¬ 
neath cinereous, with a double black fpot at the angle of 
the. tail. This and the next are natives of India. 
273. Papilio Melibreus: wings two-tailed, bluilh, with 
a brown border; beneath yellowilh, with brown ftreaks 
on the upper pair, and black ones on the lower; angle of 
the tail black, with blue rings. 
274. Papilio Maecenas: wings two-tailed, black, with 
a blue dilk beneath, with chefnut-brown clouds. It in¬ 
habits China. 
275. Papilio Tyrtaeus: wings two-tailed, brown ; lower 
ones beneath with a waved white ftreak, and black mar¬ 
ginal lunules, the middle ones rufous. This and the next 
are natives of India. 
276. Papilio Xenophon: wings two-tailed,brown, with 
a yellow dilk; beneath cinereous, with a white ftreak in 
the middle, joined to a brown one. 
_ 277. Papilio Mariyas. A very beautiful exotic fpe¬ 
cies, a native of India, and of a moll exquifite lucid blue 
colour, edged with black, and farther ornamented by 
having each of the lower wings tipped with two narrow 
black tail-lhaped procefies. This is reprefented at fig. 32. 
278. Papilio Phorbas: wings tailed, brown, with a 
white dilk; beneath white, with cinereous ftreaks, and 
two black dots at the angle of the tail. It inhabits 
India. 
279. Papilio betulse : wings flightly tailed, brown; be¬ 
neath yellowilh, with two white ftreaks on the lower ones. 
See fig. 33. _ 
280. Papilio pruni : wings flightly tailed; above brown, 
with a red fpot at the tip of the lower ones ; lower wings 
beneath, with a fulvous marginal band dotted with black. 
This and the laft fpecies are found in this country. 
281. Papilio fpini: wings tailed, brown; beneath ci¬ 
nereous, with fulvous marginal lunules, and a bluilh 
fpot near the tail. It is found in Germany, on the Pru- 
nus fpinofa, hence its fpecific name. 
282. Papilio quercus: wings flightly tailed, bluifh, 
edged white ; beneath cinereous. A native of England, 
and other parts of Europe. Fig. 34. 
283. Papilio cerafi: wings tailed, brown, immaculate; 
beneath a white ftreak, and fulvous lunules marked with 
a black dot on the lower ones. Inhabits Auftria. 
284. Papilio acacia: wings tailed, brown; beneath 
bluilh; with a white ftreak, and fulvous lunules near the 
tail. This is a Ruffian infeft. 
*8f. Papilio fedi: wings tailed, blue, the margin fpot¬ 
ted with white; beneath white, with fquare black fpots 
and a rufous band. Inhabits Germany. 
aS6. Papilio rubi; wings flightly tailed; above brown ; 
beneath 
