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RHIPHEUS DASYCEPHALUS.
as one of the most accurate artists that ever lived; as a remarkable proof of this, we find that he has not failed to delineate that peculiar neuration of the anterior wings which belongs only to the types of Leilus. A closer affinity therefore between Papilio and Leilus cannot possibly be imagined; while its remarkable hairy front points out its analogy, as an aberrant type in its own genus, to Chlorisses among insects, and Dasycephala among birds. So true it is that the natural system 'illuminates with a flood of light' every supposed anomaly, and reconciles facts apparently the most inexplicable[1]."
FINIS.
Printed by W. H. Lizars, Edinburgh.
- ↑ Zoological Illustrations, 2d series, 131.
