Identifier: zoologicalillust03swain (find matches)
Title: Zoological illustrations, or, Original figures and descriptions of new, rare, or interesting animals, selected chiefly from the classes of ornithology, entomology, and conchology, and arranged according to their apparent affinities
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Swainson, William, 1789-1855 Bayfield, George Dall, William Healey, 1845-1927, former owner. DSI
Subjects: Birds Insects Mollusks Shells Zoology
Publisher: London : Baldwin & Cradock

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is represented by the fourth type of thegenus Mitra, as now restricted, to which type (representedby M. Zebra), acuminata also belongs : both, as prototypesof the Strombidee, have the outer lip gibbous near the top ;but the plaits of the pillar are totally different, while thespire of one is acute, and of the other papillary. M. mono-donta is a Grignon fossil: some specimens are so wellpreserved, that the colours may be traced in the appearanceof zebra-like stripes : thus strongly corroborating our viewson its true analogies. MITRA terebellum. Shell fusiform, turrited, smooth, base striated; channel sub-entire, Mitra terebellum. Lam. Sys. 7, 325. Envy. Meth. pi. 392, a, b, c,d? Of this Grignon fossil, we have but one specimen: itagrees with Lamarcks description, but not with the figurebe quotes; and it may possibly be a distinct species betweenhis M. plicatella and terebellum. The plaits are like thoseof M. monodonta; but the tip of the spire is acute, andslightly plaited. l8.
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LlilLTJS Occtrdenletlu! Sw. 12Q L E I L U S Occidentalis, West India Emerald- Butterfly. Specific Character. Posterior wings with a flame-coloured, irregularly indented.,marginal band; tails black, with emerald green spot*.Papilio Sloaneus. Cramer, pi. 85. e. f. vol. 1. p. 134.Papilio Leilus. var. Fab. Ent. Sijst. 3. 1. 22. Specimens of this rare and splendid species, sent to ourmuseum from the island of Jamaica, enable us to completethe illustration of the only three American species of thistype hitherto discovered. It is in all probability the same asthat figured by Cramer; particularly as his specimenscame from the same locality. Even a superficial com-parison of this figure with those on our two last plates, willshew the error of Fabricius and others, in classing- them allunder the same name. We have represented the speciesin that attitudewhich is assumed by L. Braziliensis, when atrest; the wings of which species are sometimes less but nevermore expanded : the fruit, upon which t

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