Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio ajax). This is plate 78 from 'Natural History of the Coleoptera and Lepidopterous Insects' (1804) by the US entomologis

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Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio ajax). This is plate 78 from 'Natural History of the Coleoptera and Lepidopterous Insects' (1804) by the US entomologist and ornithologist John Abbot (1751-1840). Abbot worked in the British colony of Virginia from the early 1770s, and later settled in Georgia, USA.

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