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FAPILIO FACTN'T H A, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings brown, fcalloped. A row of white {pots on the anterior pair. Ends of the pofterior pair white. 
Papitio JacinTua: alis repando dentatis fufcis: anticis ftriga punctorum alborum, pofticis apice albis. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 1. 60. 187. 

This curious butterfly was found in the province of Pe-tche-lee, in China, by the gentleman who dif- 
eovered the elegant Papilio, T'e/amon, near Pekin; and has otherwife, by his attention to entomology, 
added fome interefting {pecies to our catalogue of Chinefe infeéts. P. Jacintha is reprefented with P. An- 
tiochus, on a leaf of the 
Urtica Nivea. White Nettle «. 

PAPILIO GAMBRISIUS. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Wings indented. Above black, with {pots and ftreaks of green; and a band of white tranfparent fpots 
on the anterior pair. 
Parrti1o Gamprisius: alis dentatis fupra nigris viridi maculatis ftriatifque: anticis fafcia maculari nivea. 
Fab. Ent. Syft. T. 3. p. 2. 264. 


A fpecimen of this very rare Papilio, was taken in one of the {mall iflands on the eaftern coaft of China, 
and is in the poffleffion of Mr. Francillon. Sir J. Banks, Bart. has a fpecimen of it from another part of 
the Eaft Indies. 
¢ Sir G. Staunton fpeaks of a cloth that the Chinefe manufacture from the fibres of a dead nettle. Query, Is this the {pe- 
cies employed for that purpofe ? no other is noticed by that author in the lifts of plants colleéted in China. 
The nettle is of general ufe in Ruffian Tartary alfo; the Kuri/es, and other Siberian tribes, make cloth, cordage, thread, 
&c. of it. Gordon, &c. * 
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