S-1141001_COMPLETO.pdf

PLATE I.
HISTORY
OF
BRITISH BUTTERFLIES.
SWALLOW-TAIL.
Papilio marhaon, LTNN.E:US. DONOVAN. HARRIS.
" regina, DE GEER.
Jasonides machaon, HUBNER.
Amaryssus machaon, DALMAN.
CURTIS. WESTWOOD. DUNCAN.
IN all our judgments of objects of Natural History, comparison
and relative proportion must guide us to tbe result. Compared
then with multitudes of the exotic species whose dazzling reful­
gence, splendid hues, and elegant and wonderfully varied and
eccentric markings, adorn the hills and valleys of far distant
and tropical lands, which these by themselves alone furnish an
abundantly exciting wish to visit, the present, our largest British
Butterfly—our finest capture—holds but an humble place—"a
Satyr to Hyperion" almost,—a foil by their side to their beauty.
But we must not, and we do not, despise our own Swallow­
tail.
This fine species is said to be found in various parts of
Europe, Asia, and Africa, namely in the whole of the former
continent, even in Siberia; in Syria, Nepaul, Cachemere, and