. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. i V III lj \\. - . - 41 PLATES LIX and LX. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF PAPILIONID^E. The recent arrival in this country of specimens of a new and verydecided genus in the family Papilionidse (a group of comparativelysmall extent as to generic forms), is an event of too much interest,in respect to a work, of which so many plates have been devoted tothe illustration of that family, to render any apology necessary forgiving coloured figures of these new and splendid insects in the Arcana Entomological1 I should not,

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. Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects. i V III lj \\. - . - 41 PLATES LIX and LX. DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF PAPILIONID^E. The recent arrival in this country of specimens of a new and verydecided genus in the family Papilionidse (a group of comparativelysmall extent as to generic forms), is an event of too much interest,in respect to a work, of which so many plates have been devoted tothe illustration of that family, to render any apology necessary forgiving coloured figures of these new and splendid insects in the Arcana Entomological1 I should not, however, have done this,had I not been informed that it was the intention of the LinnseanSociety to publish uncoloured representations of them, accompany-ing Mr. Hopes Memoir, in which they have been described. Inthis Memoir Mr. Hope has proposed for them the generic name of TEINOPALPUS, in allusion to the porrected palpi, a character in which they differfrom all the other Papilionidse, and in which respect they resemblesome of the Nymphalidse. Not only are the palpi porrected, butthe fro

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