6 ORTENTAL ENTOMOLOGY.
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Adopting the excellent system of Nomenclatm-e proposed with so much taste bj' Linnieus, wherebj^
tlie species of the modern genus Papilio were distinguished b}' the names of the famous heroes of
antiquity, the present species (in order at the same time to indicate its relation to Papilio Bootes) is
named after Icarius^ the son of CEbalus and Erigone; who, haiáng been killed by some peasants of
(xreece, whose companions he had made drunk with wine, (a liquor till then unknown to them, and
which from its effects they thought to be poison,) was transformed by Jupiter into a star, whicli was
supposed by some persons to be identical mt h the celestial Bootes.
The Orchidaceous plant figured in the plate is the Dendrobium monileforme of Linnffius, lately sent
by Dr. Wallich, to the Eoyal Gardens at Kew.