M A C H A O N. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna commonly thickening towards the end 
into a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at reft) meeting upwards. (Flight 
diurnal.) 
Specific Character, &c. 
Black-and-yellow tail-winged BUTTERFIA, 
with the edges of the wings black with yellow 
crefcents ; the lower ones with a red fpot at 
the interior tips. 
Roc/el. l. clafs. 2. pi. l. 
Merian. inf. cur. 94. & 163. 
Wilkes, pap. 47. pi. 1. 
iE fper. pap. 1. 
The Swallow-tailed BUTTERFLY. 
The Great Fennel BUTTERFLY. 
The Papilio Machaon or Swallow-tailed Butterfly, 
the largeft and moll: fuperb of all the Britifh lepi- 
doptera, proceeds from a green caterpillar, with nu¬ 
merous black bands, each marked by a row of red 
fpots : the head is furnilhed with a pair of fhort re- 
tradlile horns or tentacula. It feeds principally on 
the 
