The naturalists' miscellany, or, Coloured figures of natural objects; drawn and described immediately from nature

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animal yet known to exist y the creature here represented might perhaps with justice be proposed as anansiuer: an animal of sicli prodigious deformity as evento exceed in this respect the Surinam toad, or Rana Pipa. What gives an aspeet so peculiarly sorbiddingto the present species is the horned appearance of the front, whicli is caused by a marp-pointed elongation of the upper part of each eyelid into a callous processi resembling a horn : to this may be added the excessive width of the mouth, whicli exceeds that os every other known species of Rana. This animal is extremelyrare, and is a native of me paris of North America. It is principalty found in Virginia. Iis generat colouris

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PAPILIO HELENA.

ARACTER GENERIC US. Antennae apicem versus crassiores, saepius clavat capitatae.

ARACTER SPECIFICUS, Uc. PAPILIO alias dentatis atris concoloribus : posticis disco communi aurato.

Cisrh. P. t. 22. f. 1. Fabr. Spec. IV. 2. P. 1 O. Papilionem Helenam, vix ab ullis exoticis pulchritudine superatum, distinguit aterrimus et quasi holo- sericus alarum color; quarum fibrae virgis nonnullis pallidioribus et cinereis notantur. Alis utrisque inferioribus summum decus affert macula amplissima insigniter aureo - flava, venisque nigris pulcherristae striata. Americam australem incolit Papilio Helena, et praecipue in Surinamia invenitur.

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HELENA.

gold colour. The Papilio Helena, one of the most beautiful of the exotic huttersites, is distinguished by the deep vel vethlack of iis wings, whicli are marked by a feru lighteror greyissi stripes accompanying the fibres; while thelower Wings are each ornamented by a very large spolor patch of the richest golden-yellow, traversed by severat veins os blach. It is a South-American insedi, and is principalty found at Surinam.

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MEROPS SUPERBUS.

ARACTER GENERICUS. Rosrum curvatum, Compressum, CarinatUm.

Lingua apice laciniata. Pedes gressorii. Lin. Ses. Nat. p. 182. CHARACTER SPECIFICUS. MEROPS RUBER, fronte, gula, uropygioque caeruleis, rectricibus duabus intermediis longioribUS.

Ouanquam Meropi Brasiliensi Lathami amnis admodum sit haec avis, adeo tamen coloribus discrepat, ut pro distincta specie jure habeatur. Illam igitur diverso nomine signavi. In Museo Britannico asservatur pulchrum specimen unde delineata est haec nostra figur