
BEPLIDOP TE Ra. 

PAP PRET Or ra ees 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne increafe in bulk towards the extremity, and ufually terminate in a kind of club. 
Wings ere&, when at reft. Fly in day time. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Pofterior wings tailed, black with a large blue fpot, and a purple eye near the anterior margin. Seven 
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lunar marks on the under fide. 
Paritto Paris: alis caudatis nigris: pofticis macula cyanea ocelloque purpureo, fubtus lunulis feptem. 
Linn, Syft. Nat. 2. 745. 3. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p.1. 1. 
Cram. Inf: 9. tab. 103. A. B. 
Dee a EEE EE 
The fimile propofed by Linnzeus for the arrangement of Butterflies, is gleaned from ancient and fabulous 
hiftory. The Species are divided into fections of Trojan and Greek princes, heroes, deities, nymphs, and 
plebeians: this allegorical fyftem, which is well conducted, feems liable to lefs objeGtion, than the cha- 
racters afligned to each fection: for many {pecies placed among the Equites, and a more confiderable num- 
ber with the Plebeii, are inconfiftent with the effential criterion Linnzus has given. This arrangement 
has undergone fome material alterations in the Entomologia Syftematica of Fabricius; alterations, perhaps 
juftified, by the comprehenfive view, its author has taken of this pleafing branch of Entomology. The 
Equites, with many additions, and a few exceptions, are the fame as thofe in the two Linnean fedctions: 
Papilio Priamus, is however, removed from the head of the Eguites Trojani, and the precedence given to 
Papilio Paris. 
Papilio Paris is an infe& of confiderable beauty. The general colour on the upper furface obfcure brown, 
nearly approaching black, but finely contrafted with brilliant green atoms, that are profufely fprinkled 
over it. The pofterior wings are adorned with a large blue fpot, which derives additional luftre from the 
dufky colour furrounding it. Another fpecies, very fimilar to Papilio Paris, but without this fpot, is alfo 
found in China. It is the fuppofed female of our fpecies. Fabricius names it Bianor, after Cramer, 
pi. 103. fig. 6. 

PAP YRS eee Ne eo. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings tailed, black, entirely covered with refplendent greenith, or golden fpecks. A band of blue green 
acrois the wings. Under fide, brown, with lunar marks. 
Parit1o Crino: alis caudatis nigris: atomis viridi aureis fafcia communi cceruleo viridi, pofticis fubtus 
Junulis viridibus cceruleis cinereifque. Fab, Ent, Syft. JT. 3. p. 5. 13, 
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