Western emperor swallowtail, Papilio menestheus 1,2, and Indian sunbeam, Curetis thetis (Thecla thetis), female 3,4, ventral and dorsal views. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's "Illustrations of Exotic Entomology," Bohn, London, 1837.

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