PARIS 
Generic Character. 
Antenna commonly thickening towards the end 
into a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at reft) meeting upwards. (Flight 
diurnal.) 
Specific Character. 
Black tail-winged BUTTERFLY fpeckled with 
green; with a large blue-green fpot and a 
purple eye on each of the lower wings. 
Cramer inf. g. pi. 103. f. a. b. 
Drury inf. 1. pi. 12. f. 1. 
Donovan's Chinefe Infers, p. 1. pi. 1. 
Of this beautiful Butterfly, which is a native of 
China, Cochinchina, and various other regions of 
the eaftern world, a mod elegant reprefentation may 
be found in Mr. Donovan’s fplendid publication on 
the Infedts of China, a work in which delicacy of 
engraving and beauty of colouring have perhaps 
been carried to an unrivalled degree of excellence. 
The fpecimenfrom which the prefent figure was co¬ 
pied is preferved in the Britifh Mufeum. 
