LEPIDOPTERA, 
PigeP Ei HO AD aa Re eB: 
FAIRUS BUTTERFLY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antennz increafe in bulk towards the extremity, and ufually terminate in a kind of club. 
Wings, when at reft, ereét. Fly in day time: 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings entire, brown: middle of the lower wings white ; on the upper furface of each, near the potterior 
margin, an eye-fhaped fpot; on the under furface two. 
Parizto Jatrus: F, alis integerrimis fufcis: pofticis difco albo fupra ocello fubtus duobus.—Fad. Ent. 
| Syft. T. 3, pl... p. 54. 168. 
Paprzio Jairus. Cram Pap. tab. 6. fig. A. B.—tab. 185. fig. A. B. C. 
Clerk Icon, tab. 29. fig. 3. 

A fpecimen of this extremely rare Butterfly is contained in the collection of Dr. Hunter; a fragment 
in the Britith Mufeum; and one in fine prefervation in the collection of Mr. Francillon. Except thefe, 
and the fpecimens from which the figures in the annexed plate are copied, we have never feen it in any 
cabinet whatever. 
It has been figured only by two authors, Clerk in his Icones infeCtorum rariorum, and Cramer in his Pa- 
pillons exotique. The figures of Clerk and Cramer do not ftriétly agree: we obferve thofe of the firft much 
lighter coloured, and the white {pace on the upper wings confiderably larger than in any of the figures in 
Cramer’s plates’. 
Fabricius fays it is a native of the Eaft Indies. One fpecimen figured by Cramer was brought from 
the ifle of Amboyna. It feems therefore, not peculiar, like fome infeécts, to China. 
t The copy of this exceedingly fcarce work of Clerk, which we had an opportunity of comparing with Cramer's works, is in the inva- 
lable library of the Right Hon. Sir J. Banks, Bart. 























