Illustration of a homerus, or Jamaican, swallowtail (Papilio homerus), the largest butterfly species in the western hemisphere. Coloured plate from 'The Naturalist's repository', or, 'Monthly miscellany of exotic natural history' by Edward Donovan, 1768-1837, Volume 1, 1823.

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