P A P I L I O J A I R U S.
J A I R U S B U T T E R F L Y .
G E N E R I C C H A R A C T E R .
Antennæ increafe in bulk towards the extremity, and ufually terminate in a kind o f club.
Wings, when a t reft, ereft. Fly in day time;
S P E C I F I C C H A R A C T E R
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S Y N O N Y M S .
Wings entire, brown ; middle o f the lower wings white ; on the upper furface of each, near the pofterior
margin, an eye-fliaped fpot; on the under furface two.
P a p il i o J a ik u s ; F. alis integerrimis fufcis; pofticis difco albo fupra ocello fabtus duobus.—F u i.
Syjl. T . 3 . j l . 1. f . S i. 1 6 8 .
P a p i l i o J a i b u s . Cram Pay. tal. 6 . Jig. A .B .— tal. 1 8 5 . fig . A . B. C.
Clerk Icon. tab. 2 9 . fig- 3 .
A fpecimen o f this extremely rare Butterfly is contained in the colleftion o f Dr. Hu n ter; a fragment
in the Britifti Mufeum; and one in fine prefervation in the colleftion o f 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 leones infeaorum rariorum, and Cramer in his Pa-
pilhm exotique. The figures of Clerk and Cramer do not ftriftly agree: we obferve thofe of the firft much
lighter coloured, and the white fpace on the upper wings confiderably larger than in any o f the figures m
Cramer’s plates'.
Fabricius fays it is a native of the Eaft Indies. One fpecimen figured by Cramer was brought from
the ifle o f Amboyna. I t feems therefore, not peculiar, like fome infefts, to China.
r The copy of tliis exceedingly fcarce wotk of Clerk, which we had an opportunity of comparing with Cramer’s works, is in tlie inva-
Uuible library of thc Right Hon. Sir J. Banks, Bart.