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WHOSE
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DEMAND THE GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF EVERY TRUE
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NATURAL HISTORY;
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ADVERTISEMENT.
Encouraged by the very favorable reception of The Butterfly
Collector's Vade Mecum,” the author has been induced to venture
on a third, and much enlarged edition, and to ewert her best
endeavours to render it still more useful and deserving of notice.
The prefatory matter has, with permission of the authors of
* The Introduction to Entomology,” been enriched by the acces-
sion of many interesting and appropriate remarks from that
elaborate and valuable work.
The * Directions for Collecting and Preserving Butterflies,”
have been much eatended and improved ; their haunts, habits,
and times of appearance, together with the instruments employed
in their capture, more fully described j and the terms, explanatory
of the anatomy of the Butterfly, adapted to the new system.
The ** Synoptical Table’ has not only been augmented, but
re-modelled and arranged according to the new Genera; and to
vill ADVERTISEMEN’T,
facilitate the acquirement of this pleasing study, three plates,
containing a figure of the wings of each Genus, have been added.
The author's anwiety to present to the public a complete
description of every British Butterfly, Caterpillar, and Chrysa-
lis, has, from the extreme difficulty of obtaining that desideratum,
aceasioned unavoidable delay : in this department, however, she
has been most materially assisted by the kindness of the Rev.
William Kirby, whose knowledge of Entomology is equalled only
by his liberality in imparting it. From Ochsenheimer’s elaborate
work (Schmetterlinge von Europa) he has added the descriptions
of many Caterpillars and Chrysalies to those in Haworth. To
him also she is particularly indebted for the descriptions of many
of the rarer Butterflies, which his superior information and a
reference to the works of foreign authors in his valuable library,
enabled him to supply. Kor all his judicious corrections and for
his superintendence of this little work, she begs to offer her
grateful and sincere acknowledgments.
i
PREFACE.
¥rom the many additions which have been made by scien-
tific Entomologists to the list of British Butterflies, since
the publication of the “ Aurelian’s Pocket Companion,” by
Harris, in 1775, as well as from the circumstance of that
work having long been out of print, and therefore difficult
to be procured; it is presumed that the admirers of this
pleasing branch of Natural History, will be interested in
the appearance of a “ Vade Mecum,” which is partly
extracted from “* Haworth’s Lepidoptera,” a work of great
merit, but which is now not easily obtained.
It is a frequent subject of complaint, that most of our
Vade Mecums, or Introductions to particular Branches of
Knowledge, are of a too general or of 100 scientific a cast.
Those of the former, being often designed only for the
amusement of children, or having no higher aim than the
gratification of the mere general reader, cannot fail to
disappoint the expectations which they tend to excite ;
while those of the latter, usually dry and technical, possess
but few attractions, and are consequently thrown aside by
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x PREFACE,
the student, who is deterred from further pursuit by the
forbidding aspect under which the subject is presented to
his notice.
It has therefore been the object of the Editor of the
present little work to avoid both these extremes, and thus -
blending amusement with scientific instruction, to offer to
the collector of British Butterflies an acceptable guide.
That it might have been much more complete, she readily
admits; and, under abler hands, she is not ashamed to
confess, that it is yet capable of further improvement,
“ Still an ample field remains,
But not for her, to others ske gives way,
Who choose a longer course.”’ *
But it is not the province of authors to point out their
own defects. It is submitted, therefore, such as it is, to the
kind indulgence of the British Aurelianist, with requesting
his attention to the following remark :—
In the Synoptical Table, are inserted the names of those
Butterflies only, which are recorded as purely British on
* It isa source of gratification to the author of this little work,
that it appears to have led to the publication of Brown’s Book
of Butterflies,” and to the elegant volume on the same subject in
the ‘ Naturalist’s Library,” by Duncan; to whom it seems to
have been in no slight degree useful,
PREFACE, xi
unquestionable authority ; except in a few instances,
where they are marked as doubtful.
The natural history of animals is the most interesting to
man as an animated being, and the most striking and pro-
minent in the phenomena which it displays. And although
the study of every class is most indisputably attended
with peculiar advantages; yet it may safely be affirmed,
that it is from the knowledge of the characters, metamor-
phoses, and various modes of life which insects are destined
to pursue, that a more intimate acquaintance may be
obtained with the laws of nature, and veneration for the
great Creator of all, than can be derived from the contem-
plation of any other class in the animated world. Whilst
most animals retain during life the form which they receive
at their birth, insects are distinguished by the wonderful
changes they undergo. Their existence partakes of two,
three, and four distinct states; and, in each of these,
differs most essentially in appearance, organization, and
manner of living. It is in this class of animals also, above
all others, that we are struck with what Cicero has called
“the insatiable variety of nature.”
Entomology, or the seience of insects, has of late years,
therefore, become a favourite pursuit ; and the talent and
research displayed in the elucidation of it by a Kirby and
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a Spence,* combined with the moral and religious instruc-
tion which their writings universally convey, cannot fail
of increasing the number of its votaries, and thereby
opening “a mine of pleasure new, boundless and inex-
haustible.”
An objection, however, has been often urged against the
followers of this interesting pursuit: an objection, which
is indeed calculated to make a deep impression upon every
tender mind—and that is, the charge of inhumanity. But
this I think is easily obviated. “ They who see no cruelty
in the sports of the field, as they are called,” observe the
authors of the Introduction to Entomology, “can never,
of course, consistently allege such a charge against the
Aurelianist ; the torture of wounded birds, of fish that
swallow the hook and break the line, or of the hunted hare,
being beyond comparison greater than those of insects
destroyed in the usual mode.
But even in the views of those few who think inhumanity
chargeable upon the sportsman, it will be easy to place
considerations which may rescue the Entomologist from
such reproof.
It is an admitted hypothesis, that in proportion as we
* Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural
History of Insects, with plates, 4 vols, Bvo.
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descend in the scale of being, the sensibility of the objects
that constitute it diminishes. This, indeed, might be
inferred 4 priori, since providence seems to have been more
prodigal of insect life than of that of any other order of
creatures—animalcula, perhaps, alone excepted. But this
inference is reduced to certainty, when we attend to the
facts which insects every day present to us, proving that
the very converse of our great, poet’s conclusion,
“the poor beetle that we tread upon
In corporal sufferance feels a pang as great
As when a giant dies.”’
must be regarded as nearer the truth.”
The vulgar think, and those who think themselves wiser
than the vulgar make no scruple to say, let him who
has nothing to do employ himself in hunting after Butter-
flies. Those who thus deride an apparently trifling pur-
suit, would do well to remember that studies which, upon
a superficial view, seem to be useless, may ultimately
prove of no small importance to mankind. But the time,
it is to be hoped, is now gone by when a defence of the
study of entomology—a study which offers an inexhaustible
source of rational and innocent amusement —is necessary.
“Why,” asks Ray, the illustrious founder, as he may
* Introduction to Entomology, vol. i. p. 57, 58>
xiv PREPACE.
justly be denominated, of natural history in England, and
whose systematical spirit threw a light on every thing he
undertook, ‘‘why were insects made attractive, if not that
they might ornament the universe, and be delightful
objects of contemplation to man ?—Why were they arrayed
in beauty, and surrounded with wonders, but that we
might be led to glorify the hand that made them ?”
“ Each crawling insect holds a rank
Important in the scale of Him, who form’d
This class of beings.”
“Tf,” says Gedner, “ we do not think it worth our while
for any other reason to turn our attention to the works of
nature, yet surely for the glory of the great Creator we
ought to do it ; since in every insect we may observe some
singular artifice, which is not to be found in any other
bodies, and which fully demonstrates the omniscience of the
Supreme Being, who has created nothing but for a certain
end, and for some valuable purpose ”*
But however the hunters of Butterflies may be laughed
at by the vulgar, and whatever ridicule may be thrown
upon this their favourite pursuit, still the great number
and variety of these insects, as well as the extreme beauty
of some of them, cannot fail of attracting the notice and
© Gedner’s Orat. on the use of Curiosity. Am, Acad. vol. 3.
PREPACE,. XV
exciting the admiration of those who are fond of contem-
plating the beauties and wonders of creation, and thereby
rendering the study of them a source of pleasure and
instruction.
Yet even in favour of the mere Butterfly hunter, who
is attached to insects solely by their beauty or singularity,
it would not be difficult to say much, Can it be necessary
to declaim on the superiority of a people amongst whom
intellectual pleasures are preferred to animal gratification ?
Is it to be regretted that many of the Spitalfield weavers
spend their Saint-Monday holidays in search of some of
the more splendid Lepidoptera, instead of smoking in an
alehouse? Or, is it not rather to be wished, that they
should recreate their leisure hours by breathing the pure
air, while in pursuit of this “untaxed and undisputed
game ?”
“ Here is my friend the weaver ; strong desires
Reign in his breast ; ‘tis beauty he admires :
See to the shady grove he wings his way,
And feels in hope the rapture of the day—
Eager he looks, and soon to glad his eyes
Appear bright troops of fresh-born Butterflies,
* * * . . = *
He fears no bailiffs wrath, no baron’s blame,
His is untaxed and undisputed game.”
CRABBE’S BOROUGH,
XV PREFACE.
There are but few individuals who have not been struck
with the resplendent and gorgeous colour of some of the
Butterfly tribe, and where is the human being who can
behold even the most simple and unadorned of the species
(P. Brassice) without associating with it the scenes of his
childhood, so dear to the heart, when chasing the wayward
roamer from field to field ?
* Minions of nature !—Creatures of the skies !
Ye bright-wing’d flutterers ! sun-born Butterflies!
Ye living gems! ye fairy-formed things !
Peerless in beauty !”” SILLERY.
Insects, and more particularly Butterflies, appear to
haye been nature’s favourite productions, in which, to
recompense them for their weakness, and to manifest her
power and skill, she has combined and concentrated almost
all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting and
alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class and
order of her children. To these, her valued miniatures,
she has given the most delicate touch, and highest finish of
her pencil :—
* Who can paint
Like nature? Can imagination boast,
Amid his gay creation, hues like these ?
And can he mix them with that matchless skill,
And lay them on so delicately fine,
And lose them in each other.” THOMSON.
PREFACE, XVii
What numbers vie in beauty with the charming offspring
of Flora! Some in the delicacy and variety of their
colours ; colours not like those of flowers evanescent and
fugitive, but fixed and durable, surviving their subject,
and adorning it as much after death as they did when it was
alive. Some, again, in the veining and texture of their
wings, and others in the cottony down that clothes them ;
and the rich robes of others decked with the most vivid
tints of the heavenly bow, with the metallic lustre of gold
and silver, or reflecting the brilliance of precious stones.
“Their wings with azure, green and purple gloss’d,
Studded with colour’d eyes, with gems emboss’d.
Inlaid with pearl, and mark’d with various stains
Of lively crimson through their dusky veins.”
BARBAULD,
The splendid appearance of the plumage of tropical
birds, is not superior to what the curious observer may
discover in a variety of Lepidoptera; and those many-
coloured eyes, which deck so gorgeously the peacock’s tail,
are imitated with success in Vanessa Io, one of our most
common Butterflies.”
“See,” exclaims the illustrious Linneus, “the large
elegant painted wings of the Butterfly, four in number,
covered with small imbricated scales ; with these it sustains
* Introduction to Entomology, vol. i. p. 7,—10.
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Xviil PREPACE.
itself in the air the whole day, rivalling the flight of birds,
and the brilliancy of the peacock. Consider this insect
through the wonderful progress of its life, how different is
the first period of its being from the second, and both from
the parent insect ; its changes are an inexplicable enigma
to us: we see a green Caterpillar furnished with sixteen
feet, creeping, hairy, and feeding upon the leaves of a
plant ; this is changed into a Chrysalis, smooth, of a golden
lustre, hanging suspended to a fixed point, without feet,
and subsisting without food: this insect again undergoes
another transformation, acquires wings and six feet, and
becomes a variegated Butterfly, living by suction upon
the honey of plants. What has nature produced more
worthy of our admiration? Such an animal coming
upon the stage of the world, and playing its part there
under so many different masks! In the egg of the Papilio,
the epidermis, or external integument falling off, a Cater-
pillar is disclosed ; the second epidermis drying, and being
detached, it is a Chrysalis; and the third, a Butterfly.*
“ Where is the silken shroud ? the groy’ling worm ?
Where now the veil which once enshrined each form ?
Where the cold, lifeless chrysalis of clay?
In gold! in glory! in the blaze of day ! SILLERY.
“The metamorphosis of insects,” observes Paley, “is an
astonishing process. A hairy Caterpillar is transformed
* Linneus Orat. on Insects. Am, Acad. vol. ii.
PREFACE. XIX
into a Butterfly—mark the change! We have four beau-
tiful wings, where there were none before; a tubular
proboscis in the place of a mouth with jaws and teeth;
six long legs instead of fourteen feet. This process must
require, as it should seem, a proportionably artificial
apparatus. The hypothesis, which appears to me most
probable is, that in the grub, there exists at one and the
same time three animals, one within another, all nourished
by the same digestion, and by a communicating circulation,
but in different stages of maturity. The latest discoveries
made by naturalists, seem to favour this supposition. The
insect already equipped with wings, is described under the
membranes both of the worm and nymph. In some species,
the proboscis, the antennze, the limbs and wings of the
Butterfly have been observed to be folded up within the
body of the Caterpillar, and with such nicety, as to occupy
a small space only under the two first rings. This being
the outermost animal, which, beside its own proper charac-
ter, serves as an integument to the other two, being the
furthest advanced dies, as we suppose, and drops off first.
The second, the pupa or chrysalis, then offers itself to
observation. 'This also, in its turn dies; its dead and
brittle husk falls to pieces, and makes way for the appear-
ance of the Butterfly. Now if this be the case, or indeed
whatever explication be adopted, we have a prospective
XX PREFACE,
contrivance of the most curious kind: we have organizations
three deep, yet a vascular system, which supplies nutrition,
growth, and life to all of them together. The art also with
which the young insect is coiled up in the egg, presents,
where it can be examined, a subject of great curiosity.”
Indeed the alteration of form, which the whole of the
papilionaceous tribe undergo, affords a subject of the most
pleasing contemplation to the mind of the naturalist ; and
though a deep philosophical survey demonstrates that there
is no real or absolute change produced in the identity of
the creature itself, or that it is in reality any other than
the gradual and progressive evolution of parts before con-
cealed, and which lay masqued under the form of an insect
of a widely different appearance, yet it is justly viewed
with the highest admiration,
“ Even inamoral point of view,” observes the ingenious
author of ‘ Salmonia,” ‘the analogies derived from the
transformation of insects, admit of some beautiful applica-
tions, which have not been neglected by the pious Ento-
mologists. The three states of the caterpillar, pupa, and
butterfly, have from the time of the Greek poets been
applied to typify the human being—its terrestrial form,
apparent death, and ultimate celestial destination ; and it
seems more extraordinary that a sordid and crawling worm
should become a beautiful active fly—that an inhabitant of
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the dark and feetid dunghill should in an instant entirely
change its form, rise into the blue air, and enjoy the sun-
beams—than a being whose pursuits here have been after
an undying name, and whose purest happiness has been
derived from the acquisition of intellectual power and
finite knowledge, should rise hereafter into a state where
immortality is no longer a name, and ascend to the source
of unbounded power, and infinite wisdom.”
If any regard be paid to a similarity of names, it should
seem that the ancients were so struck with the transforma-
tions of the Butterfly, and its revival from a seeming
temporary death, as to have considered it as an emblem of
the soul; the Greek word ux, signifying both the soul
and a butterfly. This is also confirmed by their allegorical
sculptures, in which the Butterfly occurs as an emblem of
immortality. Nor is it very unlikely that the doctrine of
metempsychosis originated from the same source. What
argument, by those who maintained this doctrine, would be
thought more plausible in favour of the transmigration of
souls, than the seeming revivification of the dead chrysalis.
Swammerdam, speaking of the metamorphosis of insects,
uses these strong words :—* this process is formed in so
remarkable a manner in Butterflies, that we see therein
the resurrection painted before our eyes, and exemplified
so as to be examined by our hands.”
Xxil PREFACE.
Modern naturalists, impressed with the same notion,
and laudably solicitous to apply it as an illustration of the
awful mystery revealed in the sacred writings, have drawn
their allusions to it from the dormant condition of the
papilionaceous insects during their state of chrysalis, and
their resuscitation from it. This idea is also beautifully
expressed by the elegant author of “the Pleasures of
Memory,” in the following very appropriate stanzas :—
“Child of the sun! pursue thy rapturous flight,
Mingling with her thou loy’st, in fields of light ;
And where the flowers of paradise unfold,
Quaff fragrant nectar from their cups of gold.
There shall thy wings, rich as an evening sky,
Expand and shut with silent extasy.
—Yet wert thou once a worm, a thing that crept
On the bare earth, then wrought a tomb and slept !
And such is man; soon from his cell of clay
To burst a seraph in the blaze of day.”
Even the animated illustration taken from the vegetable
world, so justly admired, as best calculated for general
apprehension, must yield, in the force of its similitude, to
that drawn from this insect’s life, since nature exhibits few
phenomena that can equal so wonderful a transformation.
“ There is no one,” says Paley, “who does not possess
some particular train of thought to which the mind
naturally directs itself, when left entirely to its own
operations. It is certain, too, that the choice of this train
of thinking may be directed to different ends, and may
PREFACE, XXili
appear to be more or less judiciously fixed ; but ina moral
view, if one train of thinking be more desirable than another,
it is that which regards the phenomena of nature witha con-
stant reference to a supreme intelligent Author. rifling,
therefore, and perhaps contemptible, as to the unthinking may
seem the study of a Butterfly, yet when we consider the art
and mechanism displayed in so minute a structure, the fluids
circulating in vessels so small as almost to escape the
sight, the beauty of their wings and covering, and the
manner in which each part is adapted for its peculiar func-
tion, we cannot but be struck with wonder and admiration,
and must feel convinced, that the Maker of all has bestowed
equal skill in every class of animated beings ; and also allow
with Paley, that “the production of beauty was as much
in the Creator's mind in painting a Butterfly, as in giving
symmetry to the human form.”
It would, however, be a waste of time to prove how de-
lightfal and instructive it is to “look through nature up to
nature’s God ;” as well as an useless labour to demonstrate,
that “if any judicious or improved use is to be made of
the natural bodies around us, it must be expected from
those who discriminate their kinds, and study their pro-
perties.”’
** To see all things in God,” observe the authors of the
Introduction to Entomology, “has been accounted one of
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the peculiar privileges of a future state; and in this present
life, “to see God in all things,” in the mirror of the
creation to behold and adore the reflected glory of
the Creator, is no mean attainment; and it possesses
this advantage, that thus we sanctify our pursuits, and
instead of loving the creatures for themselves, are led, by
the survey of them and their instincts, to the love of Har
who made and endowed them.” 'The more then we study
the works of Creation, the more will the wisdom and’ the
goodness of the Creator be manifested; and while we
admire the order and harmony of the whole, or the beauty
and variety of its parts, it will be impossible not to adore
“ant who is wise in heart, and wonderful in working,”
and at the same time confess with humility of soul, that
“ the hand that made them is’ divine.”
LATITIA FORD.
Vicarage, Navestock, April 30, 1836,
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
‘** Lo, the bright train their radiant wings unfold
With silver fringed, and freckled o’er with gold.
On the gay hosom of some fragrant flower,
They idly flutt’ring live their little hour ;
Their life all pleasure, and their task all play,
All spring their age, and sunshine all their day.”
MRS. BARBAULD,
Tue Order Lepidoptera, (a name derived from Aemhs, a scale,
and Trepoy, a wing,) to which the Butterfly tribes belong,
consists of insects which have four wings more or less covered
with minute scales, and which are generally furnished with
a spiral tongue (Anilia.*) This Order is divided by modern
Entomologists into three primary sections, and denominated
Diurnal, Crepuscular, and Nocturnal Lepidoptera. The
Diurnal Lepidoptera form the Linnean genus Papilio, called
in England Butterfly, from the Saxon Burron-pleoze,
(Buttor-fleoze,) and so named because it first appears in the
beginning of the season for butter. The characters that dis-
tinguish this section are Antenne shorter than the body, con-
sisting of numerous joints, and commonly terminating in a
longer or shorter knob or clavated tip: Labial Palpi eylin-
* Introduction to Entomology, vol, iii. p. 362, 469.
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drical or conical, covered with scales or hairs, and usually
consisting of three joints: Maaillary Palpi very minute:
Antlia (tongue) consisting of two pieces forming a tube for
suction, which, when not employed, is generally coiled up
between the palpi like a watch-spring. Other peculiar cha-
racters are to be found in them: viz. patagia or tippets, which
adorn their thorax, and the ¢egule or base covers, to defend
their wings; a honey-bag somewhat analogous to the crop
of birds; and a. eolleterium or varnish secretor, concerning
the use of which physiologists are not agreed. The wings of
some male Butterflies are furnished with a singular apparatus
for keeping them steady, and the under wing from passing
over the upper in flight. “’The great number,” says Dr.
Shaw, “of species in this genus, makes it absolutely neces-
sary to divide them into sections or sets, instituted from the
habit or general appearance, and in some degree, from the
distribution of the colours on the wings. ‘This division of the
genus is conducted by Linneus in a peculiar elegant and
instructive manner, being an attempt to combine natural
and civil history, by attaching some illustrious ancient name
to an insect of such or such particular cast.” The great per-
spicuity of his system of Entomology, however, arose from
its author having made choice of the most obvious characters
which insects afford for the leading distinction of his orders.
In the construction of his genera, he has taken his characters
from various parts, but paid particular attention to the form,
situation, and structure of the antenna or horns; these parts
being conspicuous in a large proportion of insects, and often
affording very satisfactory and obvious characters, and so
infinitely varied in their appearance, as to constitute, with
few exceptions, a permanent distinction, Other characters
more recondite, and perhaps more constant and certain,
have been with good effect applied by later Entomologists to
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the purpose of classification. Their names are, likewise,
sometimes taken from the plants on which they feed. ‘The
size of Butterflies varies but little; in the largest species,
seldom above a few lines; the females are almost without
exception larger than the males, and vary considerably in
colour; their wings, when sitting, are usually erect, and
meet upwards ; their flight is in the day time.
The Butterfly requires no other food than the nectareous
juices which are distilled from flowers, or the saccharine
substance which exudes from the leaves of vegetables ; it
will sometimes alight and suck the sweets of ripe fruit that
has been broken by its fall. The skies are its proper habita-
tion—the air is its element ; the pageantry of princes cannot
equal the ornaments with which it is invested, or the rich
colouring that embellishes its wings. ‘There is nothing in
the animal creation so beautiful or splendid as many species
of these insects; they serve to banish solitude from our
walks, and to fill up our idle intervals with the most pleas-
ing speculations.
** Who loves not the gay Butterfly, which flits
Before him in the ardent noon, array’
In crimson, azure, emerald, and gold;
With more magnificence upon his wing,
His little wing—than ever grac’d the robe
Gorgeous of royalty ; is like the kine
‘That wanders mid the flowers which gem the mead,
Unconscious of their beauty ””
CARRINGTON’S DARTMOOR, p. 33.
Almost allinsects are oviparous. Nature keeps her but-
terflies, moths, and caterpillars locked up during the winter
in their egg state; and we have to admire the various de-
vices to which, if we may so speak, the same nature resorts
4 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
for the security of the egg. Many insects inclose them in a
silken web; others cover them with a coat of hair, plucked
from their own bodies; and others glue them to the leaves
upon which they are deposited, that they may not he shaken
off by the wind, or washed away by the rain. Some again
make incisions into the leaves, and hide an egg in each
incision; whilst others envelope their eggs with a soft sub-
stance which forms the first aliment of the young animal ;
and some again make a hole in the earth, and having stored
it with a sufficient quantity of proper food, deposit their eggs
in it."
Butterflies in the winter generally lie hid within their
cases, with their legs, antenne, and wings closely folded
over the breast and sides, and are nourished by the surround-
ing liquor like the fwtus of other animals ; from whence, at
the approach of spring, they awake and become inhabitants
of the air, when they always find their favorite aliment
provided in abundance before them.
Nine-tenths probably of the extensive Order Lepidoptera
pass the winter in the pupa state, which indeed is the case
with all the numerous species that feed on annual plants ;
because as these plants have no local habitation, dying one
year and springing up from seed in another quarter the next,
the eggs deposited on them in autumn would not escape
destruction; and even were the /arve hatched before winter,
and hybernate in that state, they would haye no certainty
of being in the neighbourhood of their appropriate food the
next spring. By wintering, however, in the pupa state, these
accidents are provided against. +
Vhe greater part of those Lepidopterous insects which come
forth in the spring or summer, perish or disappear at the
* Paley’s Natural Theology, p. 356, 357.
+ Introduction to Entomology, vol. ii, ps 455.
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approach of winter; there are few, the period of whose life
exceeds that ofa year, Some outlive the rigors of winter,
from being concealed under ground, and others remain hid
in the bark of trees, or in chinks of old walls; but the pro-
portion which survives is very inconsiderable, unless it be
those in the egg state. Those which are hatched in the
autumn, and live under ground, or in other places of security
during winter, usually come forth in the spring, take proper
nourishment, and undergo their several changes to the per-
fect state.
When the insect has quitted the eauvie of the pupa, it has
attained the last stage of its existence, and is termed an
imago, or perfect insect. After its first exclusion it is weak,
soft, and languid, and all its parts covered with moisture.
The wings, instead of being of their subsequent amplitude,
and painted with a variety of hues, are very small and of a
dull colour, in which no distinct characters can be traced.
These symptoms of debility and imperfection, however, soon
vanish ; the moisture of the skin evaporates; the texture
becomes firm; the colours appear in their perfect beauty ;
and the wings expand to their full size. The proceedings
here described, observe Messrs. Kirby and Spence, were
witnessed very recently in that interesting and beautiful
Butterfly Papilio Machaon, which 1 had the pleasure to see
leave its puparium. With great care I placed it upon my
arm, where it kept pacing about above an hour; when all
its parts appearing consolidated and developed, and the
animal in perfect beauty, I secured it, though not without
great reluctance, for my cabinet. To observe how gradual,
and yet how rapid, was the deyelopment of the parts and
organs, and particularly of the wings, and the perfect coming
forth of the colours and spots, was an interesting spectacle.
At first it was unable to elevate or even move its wings ;
but in proportion as the aerial or other fluid was forced by
6 BUTTEREFLY COLLECTOR'S
the motions of its trunk into their nervures, their numerous
corrugations and folds gradually yielded to the action, till
they gained their greatest extent, and the film between all
the nervures became tense. ‘The ocel/li and spots and bars,
which appeared at first as but germs, or rudiments of what
they were to be, grew with the growing wing, and shone
forth upon its complete expansion in full magnitude and
beauty.”
Thus, to use the words of Swammerdam, we see a little
insignificant creature distinguished in its last birth with
qualifications and ornaments which man, during his stay
upon earth, can never hope to acquire :—a strong proof, that
while this animal is raised to its greatest height, we are as
yet in this world only candidates for perfection !
Papilionaceous insects, in general, soon after their en-
largement from the chrysalis, and commonly during their
first flight, discharge some drops of red-coloured fluid, more
or less intense in different species. “This circumstance,’
observes Dr. Shaw, “‘is peculiarly worthy of attention, from
the explanation which it affords of a phenomenon often con-
sidered, both in ancient and modern times, in the light of a
prodigy :—viz. the descent of red drops from the air, which
has been called a shower of blood; an event recorded by
several writers, and particularly by Ovid, among the pro-
digies which took place before the death of Julius Cwsar.
“* Sene faces vise mediis ardere sub astris,
Seepe inter nimbos gutte cecidere cruente.”
“With threatening signs the lowering skies were fill’d,
And sanguine drops from murky clouds distill’d.”
This highly rational elucidation of » phenomenon, at first
view so inexplicable, seems to have been discovered by the
* Introduction to Entomology, vol, ili, p. 292, 293,
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celebrated Pieresc, at Aix, in Provence, where a shower of
this kind fell in 1608. The common people were terrified
with the apprehension of some great general calamity ; but
that intelligent naturalist, enquiring into the affair with
minute attention, was fully convinced that these drops were
scattered by an innumerable swarm of the Vanessa C. Album,
hovering in the air; he preserved several of the caterpillars
of this insect in a glass, which after their transformation
discharged these drops of blood. ‘This discovery ruined two
hypotheses, which had been supported with equal ability—
one, that it was the work of evil spirits; the other, that these
drops were formed from red exhalations precipitated again
in rain.® ;
The same notion was also entertained by Swammerdam,
though he does not appear to have verified it from his own
observation.
“Some people,” says Pliny, “think the appearance of the
Butterfly the surest sign of spring, on account of the delicacy
of the animal.” And certainly these insects may generally
be regarded as precursors of fine weather. The elegant
brimstone Butterfly, Gonepterya Rhamni, usually bursts from
its chrysalis in March, and is the herald of the whole tribe;
this is succeeded by the large and small tortoise-shell /wnessas
Polychloros and Urtica ; and in the following month, among
many others, by Pontia Brassice, the large white cabbage
Butterfly, which has ever been regarded as an index of
settled skies, and a symbol of summer.
One of the superstitions prevailing among the lower classes
in Devonshire is, that any individual neglecting to kill the
first Butterfly he sees in the year, will have ill luck through-
out it. ‘The Dorset Chronicle recently furnished a ludicrous
* Avelin Miracula Insectorum, Am. Acad. vol, iii. p. 320,
8 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
example of this vulgar error; which, for the sake of the
unoftending insect, it is to be hoped is so purely provincial
as to be confined to those counties. It was from a different
feeling that Shakspeare, in his inimitable Midsummer Night's
Dream, makes the Queen tell her Fairies, in their charge of
Oberon, to
“pluck the wings from painted Butterflies
To fan the moon-beams from his sleeping eyes.”
The Butterfly is one of the principal ornaments of oriental
poetry ; but in those countries, the insect is larger and more
beantiful than with us.
Lord Byron thus elegantly alludes to one of the most
splendid and rare of the species, “the blue-winged Butterfly
of Kashmeer.”
“ As, rising on its purple wing,
The insect queen of eastern spring
O’er emerald meadows of Kashmeer
Invites the young pursuer near,
And leads him on from flower to flower,
A weary chase and wasted hour ;
Then leaves him, as it soars on high,
With panting heart and tearful eye.
So beauty lures the full-grown child,
With hue as bright and wing as wild,
A chase of idle hopes and fears,
Begun in folly, closed in tears ;
If won, to equal ills betray’d,
Woe waits the insect and the maid.
* * * * * *
The lovely toy so fiercely sought
Has lost its charm by being caught,
For every touch that wooed its stay
Has brush’d its brightest hues away,
Till charm, and hue, and beauty gone,
Tis left to fly or fall alone.”
THE GIAOUR,
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Insects, under all their varieties of form, are endowed with
antenne, which is the name given to those long organs that
rise from each side of the head; but to what common use,
or want of the insect kind, a provision so universal is sub-
servient, has not yet been clearly ascertained. They have
been regarded by some as organs of smell, and by others as
organs of touch ; but though they may be used occasionally
in exploring by touch, this is neither their general nor their
primary use, for the antenne of very great numbers never
are or can be employed for this purpose. Itis most probable
that they are the organs of a sense not perfectly analogous
to any of ours, but coming nearest to that of hearing, for
they certainly collect notices from the atmosphere. This
unknown sense Lehmann (who is the patron of the hypo-
thesis that makes them primarily tactus) calls a@roscepsy.*
An extraordinary instance of irritability is exhibited by
the antlia, or instrument of suction of the Butterfly. If this
organ, which the insect can roll up spirally like a watch-
spring, or extend in a straight direction, be cut off as soon
as the animal is disclosed from the chrysalis, it will continue
to roll up or unroll itself as if still attached to its head; and
if, after having apparently ceased to move for three or four
hours, it be merely touched, it will again begin to move and
resume the same action. This is doubtless occasioned by
the peculiar structure of the antlia, which is composed of an
infinity of horny rings acted upon by muscles, more nume-
rous, probably, than those which move the trunk of the
elephant. The motion only ceases when the muscles become
dry and rigid.t
The Larve of Butterflies are universally and emphatically
* See Introduction to Entomology, vol, iv. p. 235, 247, where
this subject is largely discussed,
t Introduction to Entomology, vol, iv. p, 19, 192.
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known by the name of Caterpillars. The body of the Cater-
pillar, when anatomically considered, is found composed of
rings, whose circumference is nearly circular; they are
generally twelve in number, and are membraneous. The
head of the Caterpillar is attached to the first ring by the
neck. The general shape of their bodies is cylindrical, and
a few of them are transparent; the contour of their head
being usually entire and unbroken. Some are quite naked
and smooth, or rough only with granular elevations, or
tubercles. A considerable number are clothed with hair or
bristles, and some armed with spines so stiff as to pierce
the skin. Bonnet remarks, that a greatnumber of Lepidop-
terous larvae have between the under lip and fore legs a
slender transverse opening, containing a teat-like protube-
rance, which they can either wholly retract and conceal, or
by pressure extend to the length of one of the legs. The use
of this is not clearly known; some have supposed it to be
a second spinneret, and to be of service in fabricating the
cocoon; but itis more probable that it secretes some other
kind of fluid, and is connected with defence, and is intended
to drive away the Ichneumons which reign over the whole
of the Lepidopterous /arve with undisputed sway. It is the
opinion of many entomologists that the long hairs, stiff
bristles, sharp spines, and hard prominences which distin-
guish others, are also afforded as a means of defence. ‘This
is rendered more probable by the fact, that in several in-
stances the animals so distinguished, previously to their
assuming the pupa, appear with a smooth skin. They are
furnished also with palpi, jaws, six little eyes on each side of
the head, and spiracles or oval openings, through which the
insect breathes; the colour of which is often so contrasted
with the rest of the body, as to produce a. striking effect.
This contrast is frequently rendered more obvious by their
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position, as in those whose sides are striped, the spiracles are
sometimes planted in it, or just above it, or between two.
Lepidopterous /arve have either ten, eight, six, or two pro-
legs, seldom indeed more and never fewer, Of these, with
few exceptions, two are attached to the last or anal, and the
rest, when present, to one or more of the sixth, seventh,
eighth, and ninth segments of the body : none are ever found
on the fourth, fifth, tenth, or eleventh segments.
Many larve of Lepidoptera unite in some common work
for the benefit of the community, and continue together
while their united labours are beneficial to them; but when
they reach a certain period of life, they disperse and hecome
solitary. Of this kind are the Caterpillars of a little Butterfly
(Melitea Cinvia), which devour the narrow-leaved plantain.
The families of these, usually amounting to about a hundred,
unite to form a pyramidal silken tent, containing several
apartments, which is pitched over some of the plants that
constitute their food, and shelters them both from the sun
and the rain. When they have consumed the provisions
which it covers, they construct a new one over other roots
of this plant; and sometimes four or five of these encamp-
ments may be seen within a foot or two of each other.
Against winter they weave and erect a stronger habitation
of a rounder form, not divided by any partitions, in which
they lie heaped one upon another, each being rolled up ;
about April they separate and continue solitary till they
assume the pupa.*
The larve of the cabbage Butterfly, (Pontia Brassice),
when about to assume the pupa state, commonly fixes itself
to the under side of the coping of a wall, or some similar
projection; but the ends of the slender thread which
* Introduction to Entomology, vol. ii. p. 20.
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serves for its girth will not adhere firmly to stone, or brick,
or even wood, in such situations, therefore, it previously
covers the space of about an inch long, and half an inch
wide, with a web of silk, to the extensive base of which its
girth can be securely fastened. This insect disposes its eggs
side by side, so as to resemble a close column of soldiers ;
in consequence of which, on hatching, those /arve which
proceed from the upper end, cannot disturb the adjoining
eggs."
That accurate observer of nature, accomplished scholar,
and highly pleasing poet, the late Rev. Dr. Hurdis, has thus
minutely described the birth and habits of the Caterpillar.
“ Hatch’d by the sun-beam from contiguous cells,
Around the slender apple-twig combin’d
In circuit orderly, egg glued to egg,
Issue the Caterpillar swarm minute.
There left, oviparous, her half-born brood,
Ere summer clos’d, the parent left and died.
There have they still endur’d, and still surviv'd
Sharp winter's tyranny ; the bitter frost,
That slew the myrtle, and the lasting leaf
Of the screen’d laurel chang’d, no death to them.
Now busily convened, upon the bud,
That crowns their genial branch, they feast sublime,
And spread their muslin canopy around,
Payillion’d richer than the proudest king.’’
FAVORITE VILLAGE,
The Caterpillar, whose life is one continued succession of
changes, may be regarded as a locomotive egg, having for
its embryo the included Butterfly: it often moults its skin
before it attains its full growth; and it is not simply the skin
that is changed, for when it moults, in the eauvie are found
* Introduction to Entomology, vol, iii, p. 79, 80,
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the skull, jaws, and all the exterior parts, both scaly and
membranaceous, which compose its upper and under lip ; its
antenna, palpi, and even those crustaceous pieces within the
head, which serve as a fixed basis to a number of mnscles,
with the spiracles, the claws, and sheaths of the anterior legs,
and in general the traces of all that is visible in the external
figure of the Caterpillar. This change is effected by the
insect withdrawing itself from the outer skin, when it finds
itself incommoded from being confined within too narrow a
compass; but to accomplish this change, is a painful pro-
cess, and the work of some labour and time; it generally
fasts a whole day after moulting, The Caterpillars of Lepi-
dopterous insects, with the few exceptions before mentioned,
are destitute of all means of defence, and are the prey of
birds and other voracious creatures. Many of them feed
close to the ground, or under the surface, subsisting on the
lower parts or roots of plants ; and for this reason are seldom
seen, and remain unknown. Many also are of the colour
of the plant on which they feed, and hence they are with
difficulty discovered by their enemies. A large proportion of
them are green of different shades, sometimes beautifully
contrasted with black bands; a circumstance which renders
the Caterpillar of one of our finest insects Papilio Machaon,
of this order, as lovely as the fly. No general judgment,
however, can be formed of the beauty of the future fly, from
the colour of the /arve ; for it often happens that the splen-
did Caterpillar gives a plain Butterfly, and vice-versa. A
Caterpillar in its adult state, is the most ravenous of all
animals; it will eat double its own weight of leaves in
one day. These voracions habits, with its slow crawling
motion, render these insects, notwithstanding the beauty and
variety of their colouring, not the most agreeable objects of
human curiosity. There are, however, many Naturalists
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who have spent years in their contemplation ; and who have
not only attended to their habits, but minutely examined
their structure and internal conformation. One species of
motion peculiar to Caterpillars is their mode of climbing and
descending, which they effect by ladders or a single rope.
The Caterpillar of Pontia Brassica, the large white or cab-
bage Butterfly, scales walls and even glass windows, without
difficulty ; but in the last instance, ifthe square upon which
the animal is travelling be examined with a microscope, a
visible track like that of a snail may be seen. This consists
of little silken threads which it has spun in a zig-zag direc-
tion, forming a rope ladder, by which it ascends a surface it
could not otherwise adhere to. These threads being of a
gummy nature, harden in the air and easily attach themselves
to the glass. Some of the Lepidopterous Caterpillars are
solitary, while others live in society. “* A Caterpillar, when
grown to its full size, retires to some convenient spot, and
securing itself properly by a small number of silken filaments,
either suspends itself by the tail, hanging with its head down-
wards, or else in an upright position, with the body fastened
round the middle by a proper number of filaments. It then
casts off the Caterpillar skin, and commences chrysalis; in
which state it continues till the enclosed Butterfly is ready
for birth, which, liberating itself from the skin of the chrysa-
lis, suddenly quits the state of inactivity to which it had been
so long confined, and becomes at pleasure an inhabitant of
the air.””*
This wonderful resuscitation has been so spiritedly des-
cribed by the French poet of nature, that no apology will, I
trust, be required for the insertion of the following extract
from his “* Jardins.”’
* Shaw, vol. vi. p. 206.
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* Voyez ce Papillon échappé du tombeau,
Sa mort fut un sommeil, et sa tombe un bercean ;
Il brise le fovrreau qui l’echainait dans l’ombre ;
Deux yeux paraientson front, etses yeux sont sans nombre;
Il se trainait 4 peine, il part comme l’eclair ;
Il rampait sur la terre, il yoltige dans lair.”
DE LILLE.
Nor can I resist offering another equally applicable quota-
tion from the amiable Hurdis :
* Behold again with saffron wing superb,
The giddy Butterfly. Releas’d at length
From his warm winter cell, he mounts on high,
No longer reptile, but endowed with plumes,
And through the blue air wanders ; pert alights,
And seems to sleep, but from the treacherous hand
Snatches his beauties suddenly away,
And zig-zag dances o’er the flowery dell.”
FAVORITE VILLAGE.
The clothing of the organs of flight of the Butterfly excites
the admiration of the most incurious beholder. The gorge-
ous wings of these universal favorites owe their beauty to an
infinite number of little plumes, thickly planted in their
surfaces, and so minute as to seem like powder; but which
are in fact an innumerable number of small scales varying
in shape and length in different species, and discoverable
only by the assistance of a microscope. Peculiar beauties of
hue sometimes distinguish a whole genera or family. What
can be more lovely than that tribe of little Butterflies which
flit around us everywhere in our summer rambles, which
are called Blues, and which exhibit the various tints of the
sky? Among these, Polyommatus Adonis scarcely yields to
any exotic Butterfly in the celestial purity of its azure wings,
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Our native Coppers, also, Lycana dispar, J ingauree, sc.
are remarkable for the fulgid colour of these organs; in
Argynnis Paphia, Aglaia, §c. the upper side of their wings is
tawny and spotted with black, while the underside of the
secondary one is adorned by the appearance of silver spots.”
From the magnitude and strength of the wings of many
species it might be supposed that in those that fan with
** sail-broad vans,” they would not be silent in the air, yet
they produce little or no sound by their motion. ‘They are
excellent flyers, and seem to flit untired from flower to flower,
and from field to field.
“ Above the sovereign oak, a sovereign skims,
The Purple Emperor, strong in wing and limbs ;
There fair Camilla takes her flight serene,
Adonis blae, and Paphia, silver queen.”
CRABBE’S BOROUGH.
The distance to which some males will fly is astonishing.
The flight is effected by dipping and rising alternately, so as
to form a zig-zag line with vertical angles, which the insect
often describes with a skipping motion, so that each zig-zag
consists of smaller ones. ‘This renders it difficult for the
birds to take them in their flight.
Butterflies, when standing still in the sun, as doubtless has
been frequently observed,
* Their golden pinions ope and close ;”
thus it should seem, unless this motion be connected with
their respiration, alternately warming and cooling their
bodies.+
* Introduction to Entomology, vol. iii. p. 651, 652.
+ Ibid, vol, ii, p. 305,
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It is very amusing to observe, in the bright sun of an
August morning, the animation and delight of many of the
Lepidopterous insects. ‘That beautiful little blue Butterfly,
Polyommatus Argus, is then all life and activity, flitting
from flower to flower in the grass, with remarkable vivacity ;
there seems to be a constant rivalship and contention be-
tween this beauty, and the not less elegant little bean
Lycena Phieas. Frequenting the same station, attached to
the same head of clover or harebell, whenever they approach,
mutual annimosity seems to possess them ; and darting on
each other with courageous rapidity, they buffet and contend
until one is driven from the field, or to a considerable distance
from his station, perhaps many hundred yards, when the
victor returns to his post in triumph.
Pupa, or Chrysalides, as to their general figure, may be
divided into two classes. The first class consists of angular
pupae, or those which have angular projections on different
parts of their body; the second of conical, or those which
have no such projections, (the anal mucro excepted.) Each
of these classes affords variations which require to be
noticed. The surface of the skin of the greater number of
pupe is smooth, but in some it is ragose and warty ; this is
particularly apparent in that of Papilio Machaon. In the
pupe are discoverable evident traces of ten dorsal segments ;
and in that of the above-named species, there is a deep
channel between the third and fourth segments. wi
(ae et nt Al ye RED co tad 4 Sleek Lneitaned
vi .
4
IL. Mipparchia Galatea,
8.Vanessa Io,
iS
LS
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15, Hesperia Comma.
\ 10 Lamenitis Cannlla.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUTTERFLIES
ENUMERATED IN THE SYNOPTICAL TABLE,
With Authorities and References to Works where they are
Sigured, and Observations on their Habits, 8c.
Genus Papruro, Plate 1. Fig. 1.
Antenne \ong, with a tapering curved knob: joints more
than thirty.
Pailpi short, not extending beyond the head.
Forelegs perfect: cubit armed in the middle with a lance
shaped spur; shanks with two spurs each at the tip.*
Claws simple, without foot cushions.
Primary ings intire, triangular.
Secondary roundish, scalloped, often tailed.
Egg unknown.
Caterpillar naked, with a y-shaped scent-organ issuing from
its neck when alarmed.
Chrysalis angular, girted,t head-case eared.§
Sepp. I, ii. pl. iii.
* Introduction to Entomology, iii. 369, d. 384, e. N.B. All
Butterflies have shanks with two spurs each.
t Ibid, 386, a.
t Suspended by a single thread round its body.
§ That is called an eared head-case, which terminates in a pair
of processes somewhat resembling ears,
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PAPILIO MACHAON, SWALLOW-TAIL.
Lewin,* pl. 34. Donovan,t v. 6, p. 211. Duncans} pl. 4, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings yellow and black ; the black being also
powdered with yellow. Primary with a row of yellow cres-
cents at the posterior margin. Secondary, tailed, indented,
with a double row of crescents at the posterior margin, the
interior ones blue, the exterior yellow. Anal angle with an
eye-like red spot surmounted by a blue crescent, and sur-
rounded by a blackiris. Wings underneath paler, variegated
with black and grey, and two or more red spots, one at each
of the posterior angles.
Caterpillar. Smooth, of a lovely pale green above, under-
neath shading into a fine bottle-blue, striped with black
transverse rings or bands, on which are dots of orange red.
This species is furnished with a remarkable y-shaped scent-
organ, which is situated at the anterior margin at the back
of the first segment, close to the head. It secretes an acrid
liquor, which emits an unpleasant smell, particularly when
the animal is irritated, by which it keeps the ichneumons at
a distance. At the bottom it is simple, but divides towards
the middle into two forks, of a fleshy substance, which it can
lengthen as a snail does its horns, to five times their ordinary
extent, or retract them within the stalk, so as wholly to
conceal them, leaying only two tawny-coloured dots to mark
their existence. It is solitary, and feeds principally on
umbelliferous plants.
Chrysalis. Of a yellowish green and grey, beset with
many points of a whitish hue, with a longitudinal black
band on each side.
* Lewin’s English Butterflies.
+ Donovan’s History of British Insects.
t Duncan’s British Butterflies.
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Observation, This is the largest and one of the most
beautiful Butterfles which Britain produces, and may be
considered as the only British species excepting the P. Poda-
livius, (which in England is extremely rare), belonging to
Linne’s tribe of Zquites. When first discovered it was sup-
posed to be a foreign insect. By some English Aurelians it
has been denominated the Royal William, probably in com-
pliment to his Royal Highness William Duke of Cumberland,
who in 1745, (which was about the time that this Butterfly
was first noticed,) was very popular for his defeat of the
rebels. In some districts in France it is known by the name
Grand Carottier, from the injury it occasions to the carrot in
the cultivated as well as the wild state, This splendid insect
though called the Common Swallow-tail Butterfly, is only to
be met with in particular places, and is by no means abund-
antin any part of England. It sometimes happens that two
broods of this Butterfly are produced in the same summer,
one in May, haying been in the pupa state all the winter,
the other in August, from the Chrysalides of July. If the
Caterpillar of P. Machaon becomes a pupa in J uly, the
Butterfly will appear in thirteen days; if in September, not
till June following.
PAPILIO PODALIRIUS, SCARCE SWALLOW-TAIL.
Lewin, pl. 35. Donovan, v. 4, p, 109. Duncan, pl. 45 fig. 2.
Butterfly. Wings yellowish. Primary with the costal
nervure, six bands (the two first extending into the secondary
wing, and the third and fifth wuch abbreviated,) and the
posterior margin black. Secondary tailed, indented, with
posterior margin black with four purplish crescents, aspurious
eyelet at the anal angle, black with a purplish crescent, and
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surmounted by a tawny spot. Below, several narrow
black bands, the intermediate pair being approximated and
parallel. Posterior margin black, near the anal angle pow-
dered with yellow. Eyelet as above. In the primary wings
below, the fourth and sixth bands inclose an ash coloured one.
Caterpillar. Solitary," smooth, yellowish green dotted
with three longitudinal lines of a whitish yellow on the back
and sides, and obliquely streaked with the same colour. The
head protrudes two retractile horns.t
Chrysalis. Yellow, beset with many points of a dull
brown.
Observation. The latter end of May, or the beginning of
June, is the usual time of this Butterfly being hatched. Mr.
Haworth says, “in all probability Podalirious is double
brooded, like the kindred species Machaon ; and if so it must
be in the /arva state in this country in June, and again in
September; and in the imago state in the corresponding
months of May and August.”’ It is very common in France
under the name of Le Flambe, from a supposed resemblance
in the pyramidal shape of the black stripes to the form of
flames. There are many notices of this very rare insect
haying been captured in England; it is mentioned as a
native by Ray and Berkenhout, and figured as such by
Donovan, Lewin, and others ; yet on strict investigation, if
still remains rather doubtful if really indigenous. Itis stated
to have been taken by Mr. Hawkins, in the New Forest, in
1827, and more recently on the authority of the Rev. F. W.
Hope,§ at Netley, Salop.
* Ochsenheimer’s Sclimetterlinge von Europa,
+ This if fully protruded would probably be found to be the
Y-shaped osmaterium or scent-organ observable in P. Machaon and
the other Caterpillars of the genus. (See Introduction to Ento-
mology, ii. 244, ili. 148 )
I Vide Ingpen’s Instructions, page 91.
§ Vide Duncan’s British Butterflies, page 99.
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Genus Gonerteryx, pl. I, fig. 2.
+
Antenne rather short, with a tapering rather compressed
obscure knob ; joints less than thirty.
Palpi longer than the head.
Forelegs perfect ; cubit unarmed.
Claws short, bifid, without foot cushions,
Wings angular ; primary rather falcated subtriangular, with
a slight bay in the anterior margin ; secondary between
ovate and wedge-shaped, internally forming a grove to
receive the abdomen,
Egg unknown.
Caterpillar naked.
Chrysalis sabangular, hunched, suspended and also loosely
girted ; head-case beaked.*
De Geer 1. pl. xy. fig. 1, 2.
Hitbner Schmet. pl. 1xxxviii. c. d.
GONEPTERYX RHAMNI, BRIMSTONE.
Lewin, pl. 31. Donovan, v. 5,p. 145. Duncan, pl. 5, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings brimstone-coloured, each with a dot
above yellow, below ferruginous, the margins, especially the
costal, dotted with ferruginous. Underneath greenish. The
female differs from the male in the wings on both sides, being
paler or approaching to greenish white. N.B. The wings
are sometimes altogether of a pale green.
Caterpillar. Pale green, with black dots on the back,
brighter in the sides, with a faint white lateral stripe.
Chrysalis. Greenish with two bright yellow stripes on
the sides,
* The beaked head-case terminates in a single process.
K
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Observation, This is one of the earliest of our vernal
Butterflies, and frequently even in the chilly and uncertain
months of March and April is to be seen in our shrubberies
and gardens, where its beautiful colour and graceful form
render it an object of great attraction. The eggs which it
deposits in the spring, appear as a second brood of Butter-
flies in August; these sometimes continue dormant through
the winter. It also hybernates in the pupa state. The
Butterfly is often found on Melica uniflora (Wood Melic
Grass). Mr, Curtis in his elegant work of ‘ British Ento-
mology,” pl. 173, has figured a beautiful variety of this
insect, of a deep clouded yellow, dotted and streaked with
orange, which was taken at Peckham, in Surry, and is now
in the cabinet of Mr. Haworth.
Genus Cours, pl. 1, fig. 3.
Antenne rather short, with a tapering but thickish obtuse
knob ; joints less than thirty.
Palpi porrected beyond the head.
Forelegs perfect, cubit unarmed.
Claws bifid ; without foot cushions.
Wangs intire ; primary triangular ; secondary rounded, inter-
nally forming a grove to receive the abdomen.
Egg unknown,
Caterpillar naked, tuberculated.
Chrysalis sabangular, hunched, girted, head-case beaked with
a long beak.
Merian Surinam ; Hiibner Schmet. pl. Iviii. c. d.
COLIAS EDUSA, CLOUDED SULPHUR.
Lewin, pl. 32. Donovan, v. 7, p..238. Dunean, pl. 5, fig. 2.
Butterfly. The primary wings of the male, above, of a
pale orange colour, the central spot, and posterior margin
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broadly black brown ; underneath, the disk of a very pale
tawny orange colour, greenish at the tip; the middle spot
black, and a series of black spots, the anterior ones obliterated
in the posterior part of the wing. The secondary wings
above, pale orange, with a narrow black fringe or margin;
with a central spot scarcely discernible of a deeper orange,
and blackening at the inner sides ; a ferruginous oblong spot
in the middle of the anterior margin, and a series of dark
points mark the posterior part of the wing. Underneath
greenish with a central sesquialterous eyelet, with another
near it, with a silver pupil and ferruginous iris. The female
differs from the male, in having above, a series of yellow
spots on the black fringe, and underneath, in five black spots
or dots in the primary wing, and a series of faint ferruginous
dots in the posterior parts of the secondary wings.
Caterpillar. Of a dull green with a white longitudinal
stripe on each side, dotted with yellow and blue.
Chrysalis, Green, with yellow lateral stripes. Wing-
sheath marked with black lines.
Observation. Mr. Duncan states that it seems to prefer
the vicinity of the sea, but it is also found in the midland
counties,
COLIAS HELICE, WHITE CLOUDED YELLOW.
Lewin, pl. 33, f. 3, 4.
Butterfly. The disk of the primary wings unequally white,
with the base blackening a little ; a middle spot and unequal
broad fringe or margin black, in the fringe one or two white
spots; underneath almost similar to the female of @. Edusa,
but the disk is white, instead of pale orange. The secondary
wings above, whitish, the middle spot tawny orange, and the
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margin black, in which on the inner side are one or two
white spots scarcely visible; underneath nearly like the
female of C. Edusa, but yellower.
Observation. “Elaving at length,” says Mr. Haworth,
“found five perfect specimens of this fine Papilio, in five
different cabinets, (all of which were taken in England, and
agree exactly with each other in every respect.) I now give
it as a distinct species, and not as a variety of Zdusa only,
which it has hitherto in this country been conceived to be.
And in this I have the happiness to be supported by the
elegant work of Hiibner, whose denomination of this species,
Helice, 1 have with due deference preserved ; though previous
to the possession of that author’s Schmet I had determined
it to be distinct, and in my MS. asin the Prodvomus called
it Kdusa alba.”
COLIAS HYALE, PALE CLOUDED YELLOW.
Lewin, pl. 33, f.1,2. Donovan, v. 2, p. 43. Duncan, pl. 6, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Very like Colias Paleno, but the wings yellower,
fringe reddish. Primary wings pale yellow, black at the tip,
the blackness being as it were divided into two parts by a
yellow band consisting of spots. Underneath dirty yellow,
with a black central spot and a series of blackish dots within
the margin. Secondary wings with a central ferruginous
spot, and a black margin. Underneath dirty yellow, with a
sesquialterous eyelet, iris ferruginous, pupil silver; a larger
spot of the anterior margin, and a series of spots near the
anterior one ferruginous.
Caterpillar. Green, silky, with a lateral white longitudinal
stripe, dotted with yellow. ;
Chrysalis. Green with a yellow lateral longitudinal stripe.
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Observation. ‘This Butterfly is much rarer than /Hdusa,
but like that, is chiefly found on the sea coast.
COLIAS CHRYSOTHOME. .
Butterfly. Wings yellow, with the anterior margin brown,
in the male interrupted by yellow veins, in the female by
yellow spots; underneath with six marginal spots. The
ground colour is citron yellow, in the middle reddish yellow.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. This insect, on the authority of Mr. Stephens,
is now classed as a distinct British species, and as such will
be included among the Papilionide in his elegant “ Illustra-
tions of British Entomology.”
Genus Pieris, pl. Il, fig. 4.
Antenne rather long, with a tapering short obtuse knob ;
joints more than thirty.
Palpi porrected beyond the head.
Forelegs perfect; cubit unarmed,
Claws very short, bifid, with foot cushions.
Wings intire; primary subtriangular; secondary between
wedge-shaped and ovate.
Egg unknown.
Caterpillar subfusiform, hairy, subtuberculated,
Chrysalis angular, girted ; head-case beaked with an obtuse
beak,
De Geer i. pl. xiv. fig. 13—19.
Hiibner Schmet. pl. 1xxix. c. a. db.
PIERIS CRATAGI, BLACK-VEINED WHITE.
Lewin, pl. 24. Donovan, v. 13, p. 454. Duncan, pl. 9, fig. 2.
Biutierfly. All the wings on both sides white, with black
margins and nervures. The primary ones marked with
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about six small triangular spots, blackening at the posterior
margin, -
Caterpillar. Velvetty black, with short white and tawny
hairs, the last forming on each side of the body a line of the
same colour,
Chrysalis. Lemon colour, sometimes whitish with nume-
rous black spots and streaks.
Observation. ‘The larve of P. Crategi, enclose themselves
in the autumn in cases of silk, and thus pass the cold season
in small societies of from two to twelve, under a covering
formed of leaves. When first excluded, they devour the
shells of the eggs from which they have proceeded. The
female is very prolific, and covers her eggs which she deposits
on the extremity of a hawthorn branch, with a coating of
varnish so effectually weather-proof, that they remain in
security till the larve are excluded. The Butterfly of this
species as well as of Vanessa Urtice and Polychloros, emits a
fluid of a reddish colour, which has frequently given rise to
the reports of showers of blood which are said to have fallen
in different places. This species is stated to have disappeared
from the neighbourhood of London for many years.
Genus Ponti, pl. I, fig. 5.
Antenne slender, long, with a short abrupt grooved * knob ;
joints more than thirty.
Palpi porrected beyond the head.
Forelegs perfect ; cubit unarmed.
Claws very short, bifid ; with short foot cushions.
Wings nearly as in Pieris.t
Egg ovate, acuminate, many ridged.
* In Pontia Cardamines the groove rans the whole length of the
antenne, and the palpi are much Jonger.
t In Pontia Sinapis the wings are very narrow, wedge-shaped,
and rounded at the tip.
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Caterpillar subfasiform, downy, sometimes tuberculated.
Chrysalis angular, girted, head-case beaked with a sharp
beak.
Sepp. I. ii. pl. I. ii. iv.
PONTIA BRASSICZ, LARGE WHITE.
Lewin, pl. 25, Donovan, v. 18, p. 446. Duncan, pl. 7, fig. 2.
' Butterfly. The wings above white, the primary ones of
the male black at the tip, those of the female with the tip,
two round spots behind the middle, and a club-shaped spot
at the interior margin all black. Primary wings in both
sexes white, underneath often cinereous at the base, with
yellowish tips and two irregular black spots in the disk.
Secondary ones, below, pale yellow powdered with black,
and sometimes an obsolete black spot.
Caterpillar. Greenish, with many small black tubercles,
and three pale yellow longitudinal stripes ; tail black,
Chrysalis. Pale green, dotted with black.
Observation, The female Butterfly of this’ species, and
probably of most others, possesses a pair of ovate Colleteria
or varnish secretors, filled with a yellow fluid, which ento-
mologists suppose is used for gumming the eggs to the leaves
on which they are deposited, and as a varnish in the con-
struction of their cocoons. It may probably serve also for
other purposes. This is the common large white or cabbage
Butterfly, so abundant in our gardens. It takes its name
from the plant on which it feeds, and to which it is so fatal.
‘“ The larva of this and the following species,” says Haworth,
“multiply so much in dry seasons, as to make great havoc
among our cabbages, &c. Small birds destroy incredible
numbers of them as food, and should be encouraged. I once
72 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
observed a Titmouse (Parus Major) take five or six large
ones to its nest in a very few minutes. In enclosed gardens
Sea-gulls, with their wings cut, are of infinite service. I had
one eight years, which was killed by accident, that lived
entirely all the while upon the insects, slugs, and worms he
found in the garden. Poultry of any sort will soon clear a
small piece of ground ; but unless they are of the web-footed
kind, they do much damage by scratching the earth.” It is
the general custom of gardeners to collect and destroy these
Caterpillars with great care. The time of the female Butter-
fly laying her eggs lasts but a few days, if the plants were at
that time watched, it would be easy to take them by the
help of the net. The numbers of the parent insect who live
out the winter being very few. Bonnet states that the pupe
of P. Brassice exposed to a frost of 14° R. below zero
(O.° F.) became lumps of ice, and yet produced Butterflies.
PONTIA RAP, SMALL WHITE.
Lewin, pl. 26. Duncan, pl. 7, fig. 3.
Butterfly. Very much like P. Brassice, but the spots are
completely separate; it differs also in being twice as small,
and in having a different larva. It varies in the spot of the
tip, which is sometimes blackish and occasionally cinereous,
but always nearer to the costal nervure than in the preced-
ing, to which in other respects it is exactly similar.
Caterpillar. Green, with a brass-coloured dorsal narrow
longitudinal stripe, and sides beset with brass-coloured
points.
Chrysalis. Tnclining to green, with three greenish-yellow
narrow longitudinal stripes.
VADE MECUM, 73
Observation. The female of P. Rape is so much like the
same sex of P. Brassice that it might be taken for a variety
of it, did not the marked difference of the respective Cater-
pillars evince the complete distinction of these Butterflies.
PONTIA NAPI, GREEN-VEINED WHITE.
Lewin, pl. 27. Donovan, v. 8, p. 280. Duncan, pl. 9, fig. \-
Butterfly. Very much like P. Rape in size and characters,
but very different in the nervures, (particularly of the secon-
dary wings), being marked by a dilated greenish line.
Fariety 1. The primary wings of the male, white, with a
posterior spot and the tip black; of the female with two
posterior spots and tip black. Underneath, in both sexes,
with nervures faint green, the secondary wings with nervures
greenish, with the colour dilated at their base.
Variety 2. 'The primary wings of the male, white, without
spots, the tip slightly black; of the female as in Variety 1,
but the base and nervures rather ash-coloured, inclining to
white at the tip. ‘The vein-like lines, in both sexes, more
dilated throughout than in Variety 1. The under wings
vary in both, they are sometimes whitish, and sometimes
yellow or yellowish.
Caterpillar. Dull green, lighter on the sides with yellow
stigmata, and covered with white warts, which are blackish
at the tip.
Chrysalis. Greenish yellow, angles very acute and pro-
minent,
PONTIA DAPLIDICE, GREEN-CHEQUERED WHITE,
Lewin, pl. 28. Donovan, v. 6, p. 200. Duncan, pl. 9, fig. 2.
Butterfly. A little larger than P. Cardamines. The pri-
mary wings white, two brown spots on both sides of the disk
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of the female, but of the male, only one above; the tips
brown with some scattered white spots, of the same colour
underneath, but instead of brown they are greenish. The
secondary wings of the male above are white, and without
spots ; of the female, with the circumference brownish and
spotted with white. Underneath white, and spotted with
greenish.
Caterpillar. Head bright green with yellow bands and
black dots; the body dirty blue, striped with yellow with
black dots.
Chrysalis. Like that of C. Napi, is green, but afterwards
becomes brownish or grey.
Observation. Although recorded from a remote period as
a native of Britain, this insect still continues to be classed
among our rarest kinds. It is by many called the Bath
White Butterfly.
— CARDAMINES, ORANGE TIP.
Lewin, pl. 30. Donovan, v. 5, p. 169. Duncan, pl. 10, fig. 1, 2.
Butterfly. The primary wings of the male white, the base,
central point, and tip black; the latter has also a series of
white marginal dots, and a large saffron-coloured spot on
both sides. The secondary wings white, with seven black
points at the posterior margin, underneath marbled with
green. The wings of the female are the same on both sides
as the male, but the tip is more black and entirely without
the saffron-coloured spot.
Caterpillar. Solitary, green above and underneath whitish.
Chrysalis. Green, with a white narrow longitudinal stripe
on both sides,
Observation. "This is the Wood-lady of the London fly-
VADE MECUM. 7)
fanciers, and though common all over England, is one of our
prettiest British insects.
—— SINAPIS, WHITE WOOD.
Lewin, pl.29,f. 4,5. Donovan, v.8, p.280. Duncan, pl. 10, fig. 3.
Butterfly. The wings above white, but somewhat cinereous
at the base, with a great round brownish spot at the tip;
the tip itself whitish. The secondary wings underneath with
dull brown transverse bands scarcely discernible. The
female has no spot at the tip.
Caterpillar. Green, with a deep yellow longitudinal stripe
on each side.
Chrysalis.
Observation. It is the smallest of our white Butterflies,
and, except in certain places, rather scarce in Britain. The
wings of this species are narrow, shaped somewhat like
those of a, Libellula. Mr. Stephens in his table of Papilionide*
appears to consider this, and with reason, as belonging to a
distinct genus, which he calls Lewcophasia.
Genus Meurrxa, pl. 1. fig. 6.
Antenne with a very abrupt, short but large obtuse knob ;
joints thirty or more.
Palpi longer than the head, very hairy.
Forelegs small, but perfect.
Claws double, with a short foot cushion.
Wings intire ; primary triangular ; secondary between round
and triangular, rather grooved to receive the abdomen.
Egg unknown. :
* Illustrations of British Entomology, No. ii, Lepidoptera, p. 6.
76 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
Caterpillar spinose, pubescent. ;
Chrysalis sabangular suspended ; head-case rounded.
De Geer ii. pl. i. fig. 10, 18.
Hiibner Schmet, pl. i. A. a.
MELITAA EUPHROSYNE, PEARL-BORDERED
FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl. 13, 42. Donovan. v. 9, p. 312. Duncan, pl. 15, fig. 2.
Butterfly. All the wings above, tawny orange, with nume-
rous black spots, the spots nearly forming a band. Primary,
underneath paler, with black waved spots. Secondary,
underneath ferruginous, red at the base with one small silver
spot and a small eyelet with a black pupil and a yellowish
iris, then an irregular band of yellowish spots, in which is a
large wedge-shaped silver spot, between this band and the
posterior margin ; below, an almost obscure ferruginous band
clouded with yellow, in which are obsolete darkish subocel-
lated spots, and lastly seven nearly triangular silver spots
in the margin.
Caterpillar. Black and spiny, with dotted lines of orange
on the back.
Chrysalis.
MELIT SILENE, SMALL PEARL-BORDERED
FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl. 13, f. 3,4. Duncan, pl. 13, fig. 3.
Butterfly. A\together similar to the preceding, but appa-
rently distinct. It differs principally in a separate point or
dot underneath the base of the secondary wing, a silver spot
VADE MECUM. 77
in the anal angle, and in others opposite the exterior margin,
and lastly in two large brown posterior spots, and these in a
streak consisting of distinct black dots.
Caterpillar. Black, with a conspicuous clear lateral stripe,
spines half yellow.
Chrysalis.
' Observation, This is P. Euphrasia of Lewin.
MELITAA TESSELLATA, STRAW MAY
FRITILLARY,
Petiver, Pap. Brit. pl. 1, tab. 3. f. 11, 12.
Butterfly. \n size and shape very similar to MM. Dictynna,
which it resembles also in the upper surface of its wings ;
beneath, the primary pair are more fulyous than in that
species; secondary pair, straw-coloured with black veins,
but near the base they have three large square yellowish
spots surrounded with black; a band in the middle, com-
posed of many yellowish spots of a form inclining to square,
and surrounded with black; a streak of black crescents; a
marginal band of yellowish spots also encircled with black,
each yellow spot having a black crescent; lastly they are
fringed with black and white.
Caterpillar. Black, with a pale grey lateral stripe ; spines
black.
Chrysalis.
MELITAA DICTYNNA, PEARL-BORDERED
LIKENESS.
Lewin, pl. 14, f. 5, 6.
Butterfly. Wings brownish black, spotted with tawny
orange; underneath tawny inscribed and spotted with
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black. Primary wings, underneath, spotted at the tips with
yellowish. Secondary, underneath, near the base with five
angular yellowish spots, the three inner ones in a triangle,
each with a black margin; then a band of yellowish con-
tiguous spots edged with black; at the posterior margin,
another band with several connected spots, each edged with
black, and terminated by a pair of black parallel waving
transverse lines, which are common to both wings; fringe
black and white.
Caterpillar. Reddish violet dotted with bright blue, with
three black stripes.
Chrysalis.
MELITAZA EOS, DARK UNDER-WINGED
FRITILLARY.
Butterfly. Primary wings tawny, with black blotches,
underneath with a black band and tawny yeins. Secondary
black with a tawny streak, underneath with a white band
spotted and veined with black.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. This beautiful Fritillary being taken near
London, very early in the morning, June 1803, by Mr.
Howard, of Kingsland, was therefore named Hos; it has a
considerable resemblance to the foregoing (Dictynna), but is
nevertheless abundantly distinct from that species.
MELITAA CINXIA, GLANVILLE FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl.14, f. 3,4. Donovan, v. 7, p. 242 . Duncan, pl. 14, fig. 2.
Butterfly. Wings above orange-tawny, chequered with
black ; primary underneath inscribed towards the base with
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black, with a bent band of black spots in the middle, at the
tip yellowish with a double transverse series of black dots,
Secondary on both sides towards the posterior margin with
a band of ocellated spots, of which the pupil is black and the
iris yellowish; underneath with three yellowish angular
bands and two orange-tawny ones, all edged and spotted
with black,
Caterpillar. Greenish, streaked with white, with a dull
brown head.
Chrysalis.
Observation. This is one of the most rare of the Fritil-
laries; and took its name from Lady Glanville, whose
memory had nearly suffered for her curiosity, from relations
that were disappointed by her will, who attempted to set it
aside by acts of lunacy; for they suggested that none but those
deprived of their senses, would go in search of Butterflies,
Her legatees cited Sir Hans Sloane and Mr. Ray in support
of her character, and her will was established.*
MELITZA ARTEMIS, GREASY FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl. 15, f. 3,4. Duncan, pl. 13, fig. 2.
Butterfly. Wings above tawny-orange, waved with black,
with yellowish spots. Secondary wings on both sides before
the posterior margin, with an orange coloured band con-
taining seven small black dots, which underneath nearly
become eyelets, with a yellowish iris. Primary wings under-
neath paler, and with very little blackness. Secondary,
underneath, with three yellowish bands, the first towards
the base interrupted, the second in the centre arched, the
marginal one consisting of seven yellow crescents,
* Vide Preface to “ Brown’s Book of Buttertlies,” p. 15,
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Caterpillar. With a black head, body black above, under-
neath yellowish, with a lateral white stripe ; legs reddish.
Chrysalis. Greenish-white dotted with black, and poste-
rially furnished with many whitish-yellow tubercles.
Observation, All the wings of this species have a sort of
greasy appearance upon their disk, whence its name.
MELITAA LUCINA, DUKE OF BURGUNDY
FRITILLARY.
Lewin pl. 16, f.5, 6. Donovan v.7, p. 242. Duncan, pl. 12, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Like the preceding, but almost thrice as small.
All the wings above, chequered with black and tawny,
blackening at the base. Primary wings, underneath, tawny,
marked with black and pale. Secondary wings, underneath,
of a deep tawny, with two bands of whitish spots, and a
marginal series of black dots ; fringe brown and white.
Caterpillar. Pale olive brown, with a black dot on each
segment; head and legs rusty red.
Chrysalis.
Genus Aneynnis, pl. Il, fig. 7.
Antenne like those of Melitea.
Palpi not much longer than the head, robust, acute.
forelegs like those of Mclitea.
Wings scalloped; primary often subfalcate ; secondary like
those of Melitaa.
Egg conical, subumbilicate, many ridged, vertex rounded.
Caterpillar spinose.
Chrysalis sabangular, suspended, head-case notched.
Sepp. M1, i. pl. 1.
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ARGYNNIS PAPHIA, SILVER-WASHED
FRITILLARY.
.
Lewin, pl. 9, Donovan, v. 7, p. 246. Duncan, pl. 14, fig. 1.
Butterfly. All the wings above, of a fine rich tawny orange,
marked with numerous longitudinal and transverse black
lines and bars, and a triple series of marginal black spots.
Primary wings, underneath, paler and less spotted, particu-
larly at the tips. Secondary, greenish underneath, with four
narrow silyery waved bands, of which the first and second
are interiorly abbreviated, the third below the middle, the
fourth marginal; a series of obscure eyelets between the
centre band, and the margin with a pale pupil and green
iris, also of green crescents at the margin. Female differs a
little, above the colours are more obscure and without the
black lines, underneath paler, and more green.
Caterpillar. Solitary, of a yellowish brown, with a yellow
dorsal line.
Chrysalis. Greyish, toothed, six points, four anterior
ones gold.
ARGYNNIS AGLAIA, DARK-GREEN FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl.11. Donovan, v. 9, p. 302. Duncan, pl. 15, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Very like the preceding, on the upper side of
the wings, but without the black streaks. Primary wings,
underneath, with six posterior obsolete silver spots. Near
the anterior margin marked on both sides with five black
bars or streaks, the fourth resembling a B. Secondary wings,
underneath, greenish, with an obscure posterior tawny band,
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spotted with twenty-one silver spots. Female, particularly
above, rather darker, otherwise like the male insect.
Caterpillar. Blackish, with a yellow dorsal stripe, and
tile-coloured lateral spots. Spines are black.
Chrysalis. Of a dark reddish brown.
ARGYNNIS CAROLETTA, QUEEN OF ENGLAND
FRITILLARY.
Butterfly. Very like A. Aglaia, but more beautiful, and it
differs in the primary wings, haying on both sides four black
costal bars instead of five. And in the secondary, having
beneath, nineteen silver spots instead of twenty-one, of
which the three anterior ones are three times larger than in
that species. Rare.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
ARGYNNIS ADIPPE, HIGH-BROWN FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl. 10. Donovan, v. 13, p. 448. Dancan, pl. 16, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Similar to A. Aglaia, especially in the upper
side of the wings. Primary wings, underneath, with six or
seven different shaped silver scattered spots near the base,
then as it were a band of seven square silver spots, the fourth
like a dot, then a streak asit were of six or seven ferruginous
red round spots, of which the third, fourth, and fifth for a
pupil have a silver dot, lastly a marginal band of seven
silver spots, anteriorly edged with ferruginous. Female
above, deeper coloured.
Caterpillar. Brownish, with ferruginous hairs, with a
whitish interrupted dorsal stripe, and black oblique streaks.
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Chrysalis. Brownish, spotted with white.
Observation. Mr. Duncan observes that many varicties
of this insect have been described, some having the upper
wings almost black.
ARGYNNIS LATHONIA, QUEEN OF SPAIN
FRITILLARY.
Lewin, pl.12. Donovan, v. 3, p. 73. Duncan, pl. 16, fig. 2.
Butterfly. All the wings, above, tawny-orange, spotted
with numerous distinct black dots. Primary wings, under-
neath, paler, with numerous black spots, with from five to
seven different shaped silver ones at the tips. Secondary,
underneath, with twenty-cight silver spots, of which eightcen
are larger and ten smaller, besides fourteen of such spots
scattered between the base and centre, then an arched streak
consisting of seven small subocellated spots, pupil silver,
iris dark ferruginous, lastly a marginal band consisting of
seven large silver spots.
Caterpillar. Brownish grey, with a whitish dorsal stripe,
two brownish yellow lateral longitudinal lines; the spines
and feet are pale yellow.
Chrysalis. Dull brown, with a yellow dorsal stripe,
sprinkled posteriorly with gold and silver dots; there is a
white streak at the end of the wing-cases.
Genus CInTHiA.
Antenne \ong, with a short abrupt compressed knob, ter-
minating in a point ; joints nearly forty.
Palpi very long, porrected, curving downwards at the tip.
Forelegs spurious.
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Claws long, double ; foot cushions short.
Wings scalloped ; primary triangular, subfalcate ; secondary
between wedge-shaped and ovate, forming together a
groove to receive the abdomen.
Egg, Caterpillar, and Chrysalis, like those of Vanessa.
CINTHIA CARDUI, PAINTED LADY.
Lewin, pl. 6. Donovan, v. 9, p. 292. Duncan, pl. 19. fig. 2.
Butterfly. Primary wings above, tawny-brown at the
base, in the middle tawny, often with a tint of carmine and
orange, with three irregular black spots in a transverse
band, at the tip black, with several square white contiguous
spots, the three intermediate ones distinct, and two much
smaller than the others, all forming a chaplet open to the
anterior margin, between which and the posterior margin is
a row of white crescents; underneath nearly the same, but
the carmine tint, in recently disclosed specimens, is more
prevalent and vivid; the costal areolet is transversely
streaked with black, three white bars at the anterior margin ;
the tip is light brown with two eyelets, with a white pupil
and a round white spot. Secondary wings above, tawny
brown, at the base with a paler spot and hairy; tawny
orange at the posterior margin, with a triple marginal series
of black spots, underneath clouded and marbled with pale
olive brown, pale yellow, and white, intersected with white
veins, with five eyelets near the posterior margin, the
external one spurious and oblong, the second and fifth the
largest, with a yellow iris edged with black, and purple pupil
and the two middle ones smaller with a blue pupil ; there is
a row of olive and white crescents between the eyclets and
the posterior margin.
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Caterpillar. Solitary, dull brown, with yellow lateral lon-
gitudinal stripes.
Chrysalis. Dull brown, with whitish brown longitudinal
streaks, and dotted with gold.
Observation. This is rather a scarce species, but sometimes
appears in great numbers.
Genus Vanessa, pl. I, fig. 8.
Antenne rather long, with a rather abrupt oblong subcylin-
drical knob, terminating in a lateral point; joints about
thirty.
Palpi more than twice the length of the head, very hairy.
Forelegs spurious.
Claws long, double, internal one slender ; foot cushions
nearly obsolete.
Primary wings triangular subfaleate, angular ; secondary
subtriangular scalloped, often furnished with a short tail,
and forming together a groove to receive the abdomen.
N. B.—In V’. Atalanta the secondary wings have no rudi-
ment of a tail; and in /. C. Album the primary are narrow
and sinuated, and the tail of the secondary is rather long.
Egg oval, many ridged, and umbilicated.
Caterpillar spinose.
Chrysalis subangular, suspended * ; head-case eared.
Sepp. 1. i. pl. i. ii. vi.
VANESSA ATALANTA, RED ADMIRAL,
Lewin, pl. 1. Donovan. v. 8, p.89. Dunean, pl. 20, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings indented subangulate, black edged with
white crescents. Primary with a central orange-red band,
® By this term it is meant that the Chrysalis is suspended by
its tail.
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between which and the tip, is a chaplet open to the anterior
inargin formed of white spots and dots. Underneath, be-
tween the band and chaplet are some blue streaks, only two
white spots and a dot, and two imperfect eyelets with a
white pupil and black and grey iris. The band is divided in
two, the lower part sending out a branch towards the base,
and another red streak and a blue one between this branch
and the base. Costal areolet underneath black, marbled
with blue. Female differs from the male in having a white
spot on the band. Secondary, orange-red at the posterior
margin, with a transverse series of distinct black triangular
dots; underneath, marbled with black, brown, and pale
tawny, with a pale triangular spot in the middle at the
anterior margin, a band of obsolete obscure eyelets near the
posterior margin.
Caterpillar. Solitary, green with yellow dorsal lines.
Chrysalis, Black, underneath cinereous with gold dots.
Observation, This rich and magnificent insect appears
but in autumn, when it is generally to be seen in gardens
flitting alternately with vigour and delight from fruit to
flower, as if vying with the mellow tints and down of the
peach, or the more brilliant and varied hues of the dahlia.
Itis very short-lived.
VANESSA, IO, PEACOCK.
Lewin, pl.4. Donovan,v. 6, p.206. Duncan, pl. 18, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Primary wings, above, purplish or brownish
red. Costal areolet black with transverse streaks of pale
yellow. Anterior margin with black and yellow spots ; near
the tip a large eye-like spot, which, for the pupil has a large
reddish brown spot darker anteriorly, the iris is anteriorly
VADE MECUM. 87
yellow, posteriorly blue, streaked with three blueish white
dots; there are also two of these dots without the eye, the
first has a faint blue iris. Margin of the wings brownish
black. Secondary wings, above, towards the margin have a
large eye-like spot, with a large black pupil spotted with
blue, and a black iris with a whitish margin, which interiorly
terminates in a black crescent. 'Vhe wings underneath are
brown, marbled, banded, and spotted with black, the primary
have posteriorly five obsolete white dots, and the secondary
one.
Caterpillar. Black, spotted with white,
Chrysalis. Green, dotted with gold.
Observation. This species frequently hybernates in the
imago or perfect state, and occasionally survives the winter,
or according to Brahm, in the three states of egg, pup, and
imago.
VANESSA ANTIOPA, WHITE BORDERED.
Lewin, pl... Donovan, v. 3, p.89. Duncan, pl. 18, fig. 2,
Butterfly. Wings with a white or pale posterior margin
powdered more or less with black, a series of blue spots
behind it. Primary wings with costal areolet marbled with
white, with two white spots at the anterior margin near the
tip. Wings underneath marbled, otherwise as above, but
without the blue spots. Secondary with a central white dot
in each,
Caterpillar. Black, with four square dorsal ferruginous
spots; legs red.
Chrysalis. Black, dotted with tawny.
Observation. There is something very extraordinary in
the periodical but irregular appearance of this species, C.
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Mdusa and C. Cardui. ‘They are plentiful all over the king-
dom in some years; after which /. Antiopa in particular,
will not be seen by any one for eight or ten or more years,
and then appear again as plentifully as before. ‘To suppose
they come from the continent, is an idle conjecture, as it
must have been long known to the lepidopterist as a native
of Britain; besides which, the English specimens are easily
distinguished from all others by the superior whiteness of
their borders. From its scarcity it received at first from
Harris the name of the ‘Grand Surprise,” and afterwards
in his “ Aurelian,” that of the “Camberwell Beauty.”
Perhaps their eggs, in this climate, like the seeds of some
vegetables, may occasionally lie dormant for several seasons
and not hatch, until some extraordinary but undiscovered
coincidence awake them into active life.
VANESSA POLYCHLOROS, LARGE TORTOISESHELL
Lewin pl. 2. Donovan v.8, p. 278. Duncan, pl. 17, fig. 2.
Butterfly. Wings of a dark orange, Primary with eight
black spots, two large and angular of the anterior margin,
two nearer the base nearly coalescing into one, two in thie
centre smaller than the rest, and two near the interior
margin. Posterior margin black, with a series of pale
crescents. Base of the wing with tawny hairs and scales.
Underneath the wing is black at the base and posterior
margin with a paler broad posterior band, marbled with
brown, three pale equidistant spots at the anterior margin.
Secondary wings black at the base anteriorly, interiorly
covered with long tawny hairs and scales, a black band at
the posterior margin, with blue and pale crescents ; black
underneath with a paler broad posterior marbled band,
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margin black, marbled, with a series of more black angular
spots, a white discoidal dot.
Caterpillar. Blackish, with yellow lateral stripes.
Chrysalis. Flesh-coloured.
Observation. The larve of this species, while young, live
together under a silken web, which they spin for their pro-
tection; but they disperse after moulting their first skin.
The Butterfly, although abundant on the continent, is scarce
in many districts of England.
VANESSA URTICA, SMALL TORTOISESHELL.
Lewin, pl. 3. Donovan, v. 2, p. 55. Duncan, pl. 19, fig. 2.
Butterfly. The wings of a pale orange, with a black pos-
terior marginal band with a series of blue crescents in it.
The posterior margin itself is brown, with two parallel pale
lines, the base of the wing black, powdered with tawny.
The primary wings above, with the costal areolet mottled
with black and tawny, six black, three yellow, and one
white spot variegate the wing; two of the black spots are
marginal, two are placed towards the base, and two in the
disk, those of the margin being the largest, and those of the
disk the smallest. Underneath they are pale variegated
with black, with a black angular posterior band. Secondary
above, black at the base, and covered with long tawny
hairs. Underneath black, with a white discoidal spot and a
pale band marbled with brown, between which and the
posterior margin is a black angular posterior band.
Caterpillar, Variegated with dusky brown and green,
head black.
Chrysalis. Brownish, spotted on the neck with gold, some-
times entirely of a golden hue.
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Observation, Vhe eggs of this species, (which has several
broods in the year), when laid in summer are hatched in a
few days; but if not laid till the close of the autumn, they
remain dormant through the winter, and are hatched at the
return of spring. The larve arrive at their full size about
June, when they throw out from their tails a web, by which
they suspend themselves under the leaves, or on the stalks
of nettles, and are transformed into chrysalids; in this con-
dition they continue about twenty days, when they assume
the perfect state. This species hybernates in the perfect
state, and sometimes survives the winter.
VANESSA C, ALBUM, COMMA.
Lewin, pl. 5, Donovan, v. 6, p. 199. Dunean, pl. 17, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings above, dark orange, spotted with black
and brown, with a brown posterior margin. Primary angular
sinnated. Secondary dentate tailed. Primary underneath,
brown clouded with grey, with a broad irregular marbled
pale band near the posterior margin. Secondary underneath,
at the base brown clonded with grey, paler at the tip, with
the letter C reversed, and snowy white. A series of spurious
eyelets with a greenish iris, and black pupil near the pos-
terior margin of both wings underneath.
Caterpillar. Of a pale tawny orange, dorsally anteriorly
yellow, posteriorly white.
Chrysalis. Pleshy, contracted in the middle, reddish dotted
with gold.
Observation. This is not a common insect, and is rather
local; those hatched in the autumn are generally paler than
the first brood.
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Genus Avavuna, pl. Il, fig. 9.
Antenne rather long; knob oblong, rather tapering, ter-
minating in a lateral point ; joints about forty.
Palpi longer than the head, curving downwards at the tip.
Forelegs spurious.
Claws simple ; foot cushions short.
WVings scalloped ; primary subtriangular, subfaleate; secon-
dary between round and triangular; grooved for the
abdomen. —
Egg unknown.
Caterpillar fasiform, spinose, horned at the head.
Chrysalis sabangular, hunched, suspended, head-case heaked.*
Hitbner Schmet. pl. xxv. E. C.
APATURA IRIS, PURPLE EMPEROR.
Lewin, pl. 16. Donovan, v. 2, p. 37. Dunean, pl. 21.
Butterfly. Wings above black, tinted as the light shifts
with a most beautiful mazarine blue. The primary with
several white spots dispersed in a triple series, 1, 5,2; the
secondary with a white angular band, and an eyelet at the
anal angle with a narrow tawny iris, and black pupil.
Underneath the primary are variegated with brown, tawny,
black, and white, and the posterior margin is cinereous. An
eyelet with a black iris, and blueish pupil is placed between
the disk and the posterior margin. The secondary wings have
a pyramidate angular white band, they are reddish brown
and cinereous at the posterior margin, with a small eyelet,
coloured as in the primary, at the anal angle. The wings
of the female are not tinted with blue.
* N. Dict, D’Hist, Nat, xxiii, 240.
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Caterpillar. Of a beautiful green, with reddish bristles at
the tail, horns greenish yellow.
Chrysalis. Pale green.
Observation, ‘This Purple Emperor of the British oaks,”
observes Haworth,* “is not undeservedly the greatest
favourite of our English Aurelians. In his manners, like-
wise, as well as in the varying lustres of his purple plumes,
he possesses the strongest claims to their particular atten-
tion. In the month of July he makes his appearance in the
winged state, and invariably fixes his throne upon the sum-
mit of a lofty oak, from the utmost sprigs of which, on
sunny days, he performs his aérial excursions ; when the
sun is at the meridian, his loftiest flights take place, and
about four in the afternoon, he resumes his station of repose.
He ascends to a much greater elevation than any other
insect; sometimes mounting higher than the eye can follow,
especially if he happens to quarrel with another Emperor,
the monarch of some neighbouring oak; they never meet
without a battle, flying upwards all the while, and combat-
ing with each other as much as possible; after which they
will frequently return again to the identical sprigs from
whence they ascended. ‘The wings of this fine species are
of a stronger texture than those of any other in Britain, and
more calculated for that: gay and powerful flight, which is so
much admired by Entomologists. The females, like those of
many other species, are very rarely seen on the wing; the
reason of which is both interesting and but little known. It
is their being destitute of a certain spiral socket, which the
males possess near the basis of the main tendon of the upper
wings; which socket receives and works a strong elastic
spring, arising from the base of the under wings; thereby
* Lepidoptera Britannica, p. 19,
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enabling them to perform a stronger, longer, and more easy
flight than it is possible for the females to do. Moses Harris
was the first who published figures of this socket and spring,
in an ingenious but little known work, called “ An Essay
preceding a Supplement to the Aurelian, wherein are con-
sidered the Tendons and Membranes of the Wings of
Butterflies.” Where in proof of this he states that Mr.
Whitworth caught thirteen of 4. /ris in one day, and but
one female amongst them. I can credit this, continues
Haworth, for in three days I captured myself twenty-three,
(nine of them in one day), but never took a female at all.
The males fly very high, and are only to be taken by a bag-
net, fixed to the end of a rod twenty or thirty feet long.
There have been instances, though very rare, of their settling
on the ground near puddles of water, and being taken there.
When the Purple Emperor is within reach, no fly is more
easily taken than him ; for he is so very bold and fearless,
that he will not move from his settling-place until you quite
push him off; you may even tip the ends of his wings, and
be suffered to strike him again. This species sips the juices
which flow from the bodies of oak trees, and in all proba-
bility feeds upon the honey-dew.
Genus Limentris, pl. U1. fig. 10.
Antenne long ; knob tapering long and slender, with a tip
ending in a lateral point.
Pailpi longer than the head, scaly, and not very hairy.
Forelegs much slenderer than the others,
Claws simple ; with a short foot cushion.
Eyes hairy.
JVings a little scalloped; primary triangular; secondary
between round and triangular, with a shallow groove for
the abdomen.
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Eex unknown.
Caterpillar long, setose or spinose, tuberculated.
€ ‘hrysalis subangular hunched, suspended, head-case beaked.*
Hiibner Schmet. pl. xxii. D. b.
LIMENITIS CAMILLA, WHITE ADMIRAL.
Duncan, pl. 20, fig. 2.
Butterfly. Wings above brownish black, obscurely spotted
with black with a white macular central band, intersected
with black veins, common to both wings, interrupted in the
primary, and terminating at the anal angle of the secondary
inasharp point. Fringe short, snowy white, barred with
brown. Primary with a cinereous discoidal crescent between
the band and the base, and four white dots: viz.—one where
the band is interrupted, two at the anterior margin near the
tip, and one near the middle at the posterior margin, a
double series of obscure black marginal spots. Underneath
brown, clouded with orange-tawny, central areolet inscribed
with black signatures; band and white spots nearly as in
upper sides. Secondary above, with a triple series of obscure
black spots at the posterior margin; underneath at the base
and internally grey or hoary, then tawny-orange with black
signatures, at the posterior margin brownish orange, with a
double series of black spots, between which and the margin
in the middle are some white blots.
Caterpillar. Green, with a red head.
Chrysalis. Green, spotted with gold, forked in front.
Observation. The graceful elegance displayed by this
charming species when sailing on the wing, is greater perhaps
* N. Dict, D’Hist. Nat, xxiii. 146,
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than can be found in any other we have in Britain. “ In its
beautiful flight,” observes the late Rey. Revett Sheppard, a
most intelligent and scientific naturalist, ‘ when it skims
aloft it rivals the Purple Emperor, which it strongly resem-
bles in appearance. It seems, however, (unlike the latter),
to avoid the sun-beams, for it frequents the glades of woods,
where it rapidly insinuates itself by the most beautiful evolu-
tions and placid flight, through the tall underwood on each
side the glades, appearing and disappearing like so many
little fairies.” It sometimes alights to suck the blossoms of
the bramble. “There was,” says Haworth, ‘an old Aure-
lian in London, so highly delighted at the inimitable flight
of Camilla, that long after he was unable to pursue her, he
used to go to the woods, and sit down ona stile, for the sole
purpose of feasting his eyes with her fascinating evolutions.”
Genus Hrepancuta, pl. II, Jig. 1.
Antenne rather long ; knob tapering at both ends, slender,
curving ; joints about forty.
Palpi scarcely longer than the head, hairy, curving down-
wards.
Forelegs spurious.
Claws short, bifid ; foot cushions short.
Primary wings triangular ; secondary between round and
ovate, scalloped; forming a shallow groove for the ab-
domen.
Eggs various."
* In this genus sometimes (H. Piloselle, Sepp. 1. i. pl. iii. fig. 2.)
the egg is subconical, many-ridged, with the vertex truncated;
at others (H. Hyperanthus, Sepp. I. i. pl. iv. fig. 2,) it is subglo-
bose, without ridges, and covered with little punctures. In some
(H, Jurtina, Sepp. 1. i. pl.v. figs 2.) it is of the same shape as the
last named, but it is many-ridged, and Sealy at the vertex; and
lastly in others (H. Ageria, Sepp. 1. i. pl. vi. fig. 2.) the form re-
mains the same, but the surface resembles net work,
96 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
Caterpillar subfasiform, tuberculated ; tail bifid.
Chrysalis angular, suspended ; head-case eared.
Sepp. 1, i. pl. iii..—vi.
N. B.—H. Semele in its antenne varies from the other
Hipparchia, the knob being abrupt, wide and short.
HIPPARCHIA HYPERANTHUS, RINGLET.
Lewin, pl.20. Donovan,v. 8, p.281. Duncan, pl. 24, fig. 4.
Butterfly. The primary wings above, brown, often with
one or two black spots faintly ocellated; underneath, with
three posterior eyelets, the innermost being very minute.
The secondary wings above, with two eyelets, underneath
with two contiguous eyelets near the anterior margin, and
with three posterior ones distinct, the third towards the anal
angle twice as small as the others. All the wings paler, and
edged with a whitish fringe.
N. B.—In the male? The wings are darker in the upper
side, with only one spurious eyelet in the primary, and
underneath the minute eyelet is wanting, but the others are
more distinct.
Caterpillar. Whitish grey, with a narrow brownish stripe.
Sometimes black.
Chrysalis. Bright brown, with obscure streaks and
shadows.
Observation, This Butterfly, which presents great variation
in the size and number of the ocelli, deposits her eggs at
random, on different plants. The Caterpillar is polyphagons.
Ithas been noticed, that all larve which live in solitude,
proceed from eggs laid singly.
VADE MECUM, 97
HIPPARCHIA DAVUS, SMALL RINGLET.
Lewin, pl. 23, f.5,6. Dunean, pl. 26, fig. 1.
Butterfly. The primary wings above, brownish tawny,
with two blind eyelets posteriorly. Underneath of the same
colour, with a posterior whitish band, which does not reach
the margins. Between the band and the posterior margin
are two eyelets with a black iris and white pupil, with an
imperfect or blind smaller eyelet between them. The
secondary wings have about three blind eyelets, the central
the largest, with a tawny iris; underneath they are brown
at the base, with a middle whitish angular band, between
which and the posterior margin are six eyelets, consisting of
a whitish iris, a black pupil, with a central silver dot.
N. B.—In the specimen described, on the under side of
the primary wings the eyelet nearest the exterior margin is
sesquialterous, or has a minute one appended to it.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. This scarce insect frequents marshes and
moist heaths.
HIPPARCHIA POLYDAMA, MARSH RINGLET.
Duncan, pl. 26, fig. 2.
Butterfly. Primary wings tawny, with two posterior blind
eyelets. Secondary wings brown, but internally whitish,
with a minute blind eyelet near the anal angle. Below the
primary are darker at the base, inclined to ash colour at
the tips, with a posterior abbreviated whitish band ; between
10)
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which and the posterior margin are two remote eyelets
with a white obsolete pupil and black iris. The posterior
below blackish at the base, with a white little band, behind
which they are ash-coloured ; there are also six eyelets,
three of which are imperfect, all surrounded by a white iris.
Caterpillar. Green, with a dark line along the back.
Chrysalis. Dark green ?
Observation. This is probably only a variety of the pre-
ceding.
HIPPARCHIA TYPHON, SCARCE HEATH.
Butterfly. The wings of the male above, are between
tawny and feruginous ; the primary above, are distinguished
posteriorly by a small brown spot surrounded by a tawny
iris ; below they are ferruginous, with an abbreviated whitish
band behind the middle, between which and the margin is
an eyelet, with a white pupil and a black iris with a white
margin, the tip of the wing is also whitish. 'The secondary
wings beneath from the base to the middle are very hairy
and brownish, or in a certain light greenish ; next follows a
whitish abbreviated streak or band, then a paler space
beyond the middle, with two obsolete eyelets, and last is a
marginal whitish band, The female differs from the male
in having rather paler wings, the primary having no small
spot, but as well as the secondary wings having a large one
rather pale ; beneath they have only a sesquialterous eyelet.
The secondary below, have two eyelets, and three ocellated
dots without a white pupil. The margin of the wings is
whiter,
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
VADE MBCUM. 99
HIPPARCHIA PAMPHILUS, SMALL HEATH.
Lewin, pl. 23, f. 3,4. Duncan, pl. 26, fig. 3.
Butterfly. Wings all tawny with darker margins. The
primary have a posterior blind eyelet, these underneath are
cinereous at the base and tip, have a largish posterior eyelet
with a white pupil and black iris, with a whitish margin.
The secondary wings underneath, are brown at the base,
cinereous at the tip, with an abbreviated whitish slender
band in the middle, and with four minute obliterated eyelets.
Caterpillar. Green, with white dorsal lines.
Chrysalis. Green.
HIPPARCHIA SEMELE, GREYLING.
Lewin, pl. 17. Donovan, v. 8, p. 259. Duncan, pl. 22, fig. 1.
Butterfly. The primary wings dull brown, with a lower
pale interrupted irregular transverse band abbreviated at
each end, in which are two eyelets on both sides, the pupil
white very minute, with a black broad iris, in the male often
without the pupil. Underneath at the base, brown with a
tawny disk, then a pale broad band; the posterior margin is
clouded with brown and white. The secondary wings dull
brown above, with a broad posterior transverse pale band,
clouded with brown, in which in the female there is a’ small
eyelet, iris tawny with a black pupil. Posterior margin
black, brown fringed with white. Underneath clouded with
white, brown, and black, the base darker than the posterior
half of the wing, the darker part terminating in an irregular
sinuated line. The female much paler than the male, and
with larger eye-like spots.
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Caterpillar. Light green, with brown legs.
Chrysalis. Greenish.
HIPPARCHIA GALATEA, MARBLED WHITE.
Lewin, pl. 28. Donovan, v. 8, p. 258. Duncan, pl. 23, Sig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings pale buff-coloured, spotted with black.
Primary above, with a double series of buff-coloured dots at
the posterior margin; underneath of the same colour but
paler, with an eyelet near the tip and anterior margin.
Secondary with five lower spots, two near the anterior
margin, and three towards the interior margin, of which the
one nearest the anal angle is double, behind they form an
indented black band.
Caterpillar. Vivid green, with the dorsal and lateral lines
obscure. Head brownish.
Chrysalis. Smooth, egg-shaped, of a yellowish colour,
with long wing-cases, and two black eye-like spots on each
side of the head.
HIPPARCHIA MEGARA, WALL.
Lewin, pl. 21. Donovan, v. 8, p. 279. Duncan, pl. 22, fig. 3.
Butterfly. The primary wings above, orange-tawny, with
the posterior margin and three transverse brown bands,
(one in the male oblique and larger than the others dividing
the wing), with an eyelet on both sides near the tip, and
often with a minute one appended to it, the pupil white, iris
black; underneath in both sexes, a little paler, with alter-
nate black transverse bands, the intermediate ones being
abbreviated. The secondary wings at the base, dull brown,
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posteriorly orange-tawny, with a brown band and margin ;
between the band and posterior margin are four eyelets, the
lateral ones often blind, pupil white and iris black ; under-
neath, a clouded greyish brown, with slender angular bands
and six posterior eyelets, (the sixth being double), the pupil
black with a white central dot in a grey iris. There is a
scalloped pale band between the eyelets and the posterior
margin.
Caterpillar. Slender, sea-green, with dark dorsal and sides
striped.
Chrysalis. Blackish.
HIPPARCHIA AEGERIA, SPECKLED WOOD.
Lewin pl. 19. Donovan v.14, p. 498. Duncan, pl. 23, fig. 4.
Butterfly. The primary wings on both sides brown, with
about ten yellowish spots, and with one eyelet towards the
tip. The secondary ones brown, with one or more yellowish
spots, and with four posterior eyelets, of which the first is
often blind; underneath clouded with brown and with
angular brown bands, and in lieu of the eyelets, white dots
in the mottled marginal band.
Caterpillar. Green, with white longitudinal lines.
Chrysalis. Green, short and unusually distended.
HIPPARCHIA HAMPSTEDIENSIS, ALBIN’S
HAMPSTEAD EYE.
Butterfly. Size and form of H. digeria, Primary wings
above, dark brown, with five spots and marginal streak
yellow ; two large posterior eyelets on both sides, pupils
white with broad black irides. The secondary brown, with
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a marginal yellow streak ; two posterior eyelets, with white
pupils and black irides. The primary underneath, yellowish,
clouded with dark brown, having an obsolete streak com-
posed of dark brown crescents, ‘The secondary yellowish,
a little clouded towards the base with dark brown; with a
small and nearly obliterated eye, with a black iris, four
dark brown spots, between which and the posterior margin
is a streak composed of dark brown crescents.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. This insect has not been taken since the
time of Petiver.
HIPPARCHIA JANIRA, MEADOW BROWN.
Lewin, pl. 18. Donovan. v. 9, p. 320. Dunean, pl. 24, Jig. 1,2.
Butterfly. Wings of the female above brown, sometimes
nearly black. The primary above, with a tawny-orange
irregular band or blot abbreviated at both ends, and con-
taining an eyelet with a black iris and white pupil, between
the band and the base is an obscure tawny longitudinal
blot; in some specimens the eyelet is merely cinctured with
tawny orange, with a very obscure tawny blot behind it;
underneath tawny-orange, with a paler band towards the
posterior margin, eyelet as above, but with a double pupil,
margin embrowned; in some specimens, the eyelet has
only one pupil, and the margins of the wings are brown.
The secondary wings scalloped brown, with an indistinct
paler band towards the posterior margin, underneath with
more than the anterior half tawny-brown, terminating pos-
teriorly in an angular line, the posterior half is paler with
the margin embrowned, the whole underside appears dusted
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with black; sometimes there are also two or three black
eye-like spots. The male has no orange band, and the
underside of the secondary wings is not so distinctly marked,
the line being fainter and less angular that separates the
darker from the paler portions, and the black dots smaller.
Caterpillar. Green, with a white lateral streak, thickly
covered with soft flexible hairs.
Chrysalis. Yellowish-green, with blackish streaks on the
head and wing-cases.
Observation. 'Vhis is perhaps the most common as well as
most hardy of British Butterflies; never being affected or
deprived of its life and animation, either by excessive heat,
or in the most rainy and cheerless summers.
HIPPARCHIA TITHONUS,* LARGE HEATH.
Lewin, pl.14.3,4. Donovan, v.7, p. 242. Duncan, pl. 23, fig. 2.
Butterfly. The primary wings above, are tawny yellow,
brown at the anterior and posterior margin, with an eye-like
spot with two pupils, or two white points on a black spot.
on both sides towards the tip. Underneath, tawny-orange,
with a brownish margin. The secondary wings brown,
with a tawny-orange disk, an obsolete eyelet towards the
anal angle. Underneath, at the base, tawny-brown termi-
nating in an angular line, posteriorly paler clouded with
brown tawny, with from three to five minute white points
or spurious eyelets,
Caterpillar, Greenish, streaked with white, with a dull
brown head.
Chrysalis. Green.
* Thisis P. Piloselle of Haworth and many authors,
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HIPPARCHIA HERO, SCARCE MEADOW BROWN.
Butterfly. Wings very intire, brown, primary underneath,
with a single eyelet; secondary above, with four blind eye-
lets, underneath with six perfect ones.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
HIPPARCHIA LIGEA, ARRAN BROWN.
Duncan, pl. 25, fig. 1.
» ‘
Butterfly. Wings scalloped, brown, with a reddish band,
the primary ones having four eyelets on both sides; the
secondary three, and spotted underneath with white. Rare.
Caterpillar. Green, with a black dorsal stripe, and several
whitish longitudinal ones. The head is a reddish yellow.
Chrysalis.
HIPPARCHIA MNEMON.
Butterfly.”
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
* This appears to be /, Cassiope of Duncan,
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HIPPARCHIA ALCYONE.
Butterfly. Wings indented, brown, with a whitish band,
the primary having two eyelets on both sides. The secondary
underneath, marbled with brown and black, and having a
white angular band and a single eyelet.
_ Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
HIPPARCHIA BLANDINA, SCOTCH RINGLET.
Duncan, pl. 25, fig. 2.
Butterfly. The wings indented, brown. The primary
with a reddish ocellated band. The secondary underneath,
brown, with an ash-coloured band.
Caterpillar. Light green, with brown and white longitu-
dinal stripes.
Chrysalis.
Genus Turcwa, pl. ILI, fig. 12.
Antenne short, growing gradually thicker nearly from the
base to the tip ; joints more than forty.
Palpi longer than the head, scaly, with few hairs.
Forelegs spurious.
Claws very short, simple ; with a large foot cushion.
Primary wings triangular intire ; secondary, between trian-
gular and ovate, often with short tails.
Egg unknown.
Caterpillar shaped like a wood-louse, short and rather flat.
Chrysalis girted, head-case rounded,
Reaum, i. pl. xxviii. fig. 1—7.
Hiibner Schmet, pl. Ixxii. A. a.
P
106 BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR'S
THECLA BETULA, BROWN HAIR-STREAK.
Lewin, pl. 42. Donovan,v.7, p. 250. Duncan, pl. 27, figs 1, 2.
Butterfly, Wings dark brown, with a white fringe. The
primary with a large kidney-shaped orange transverse spot
nearer to the tip than the base; underneath, all the wings
are orange tawny, with the posterior margin bright orange.
The primary have in the middle a linear transverse spot
edged with white, and a pyramidate internally abbreviated,
orange band darker at the tip, edged especially posteriorly
with white. The secondary are tailed, with a rather pyra-
midate indented, orange band, edged with white, and angle
spotted with black. In the male, the discoidal spot of the
primary wings is more obscure and smaller.
Caterpillar. Green, with yellow dorsal and lateral stripes,
and with oblique yellowish streaks on the sides.
Chrysalis. Brown, with faint paler streaks.
THECLA PRUNI, BLACK HAIR-STREAK.
Lewin pl. 44,f.1,2. Donovan v. 13, p. 437. Duncan pl. 28, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings dark brown, and without spots, Under-
neath, they are of a lighter brown or drab colour. Primary
with a posterior white, rather undulated transverse streak,
Secondary, tailed with a similar but zigzag streak, and a
deep orange-coloured undulated marginal band, externally
spotted and internally edged with black; the small tails of
the wings are brown with black tips, antennew annulated
with black and white, orange at the tip.
Caterpillay. Plump, blackish green, with whitish lateral
lines, dorsally toothed.
Chrysalis. Dusky brown, white head.
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THECLA QUERCUS, PURPLE HAIR-STREAK.
Lewin, pl. 43. Donovan, v. 13, p. 460. Duncan, pl. 27. fig. 3,4.
Butterfly. Above brownish black, disk of the primary
wings of a shining deep blue, formed of two great contiguous
oblong spots drawn from the base towards the tip, the lowest
being twice the size of the other. All the wings underneath
are hairy, with a posterior white undulated streak common
to them all; between which and the posterior margin the
wing is paler. Secondary wings tailed, with one or two
eyelets at the anal angle, with a fulvous iris and black pupil,
which in the male are often whitish; a series of obsolete
pale crescents near the margin. The female differs from the
male in the primary wings being brownish purple, or often
entirely purple, without any blue.
Caterpillar. Plump, above rose-coloured, with three rows
of green dots.
Chrysalis. Naked, ferruginous, with three dorsal rows of
brown dots.
THECLA RUBI, GREEN HAIR-STREAK,.
Lewin, pl. 44. Donovan, v. 13, p. 443. Duncan, pl. 28, fig. 3.
Butterfly. Less than T. Quercus. Above dusky brown,
with sometimes (particularly in the female) a pale spot
nearly obliterated in the disk of the primary wing near the
costal margin. Underneath green. Secondary wings tailed,
streaked below with a band of white dots, which (particularly
in the male) is sometimes nearly obliterated, but there are
always one or two dots.
Caterpillar, Green, variegated with yellow, head black.
Chrysalis. Brown,
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Genus Lycxna, pl. II. fig. 13.
Antenne with a longish tapering * obtuse knob ; joints more
than thirty.
Palpi longer than the head, above and whole of the last joint
scaly, hairy underneath.
Forelegs perfect.
Claws very short, simple ; foot cushions large.
Primary wings triangular and nearly wedge-shaped, intire ;
secondary between round and triangular, with a tooth or
two near the anal angle.
Peg unknown.
Caterpillar shaped like a wood-louse, &c.
Chrysalis girted, head-case rounded,
De Geer i. pl. iv. fig. 9—15.
Hiibner Schmet. pl. lxiv. A. a. a.
LYCENA HIPPOTHOE,+ LARGE COPPER.
Dunean, pl. 29, fig. 1, 2.
Butterfly. Male. Wings above of a shining and bright
fiery copper-colour, with an articulate band of very faint
round spots near the tip. Primary with a semi-lunar spot ;
the costal and posterior margins black; underneath paler
orange with ten eyelets, with a large black pupil and white
iris, the first three are placed longitudinally near the anterior
margin, seven in a transverse subundulated band towards
the posterior margin, besides which at that margin is a
transyerse series of black dots without the iris, the margin
itself and fringe are whitish. Secondary wings with an
oblong discoidal line, and the margins black, the black
colour of the posterior margin is indented internally ; under-
* The term ‘‘tapering,” is perhaps used here and before, not
with strict propriety, for tapering downwards; but it appeared
the. most convenient terin.
+ This is P. Dispar of Haworth,
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neath blueish, with numerous subocellated black spots, fiye
towards the base scattered, then a waved band consisting of
nine spots, between which and the others is an interrupted
black discoidal line, all the spots have a white iris more or
less distinct; the posterior margin deep orange-coloured,
with an interior series of black spots, and an exterior one of
black dots; fringe white, divided in two by a transverse
black line. Female. Underneath similar to the male, but
above it differs very much. The primary wings are not so
fulgid and bright as those of the male, and are spotted with
ten black spots, three near the costal margin placed longitu-
dinally, and seven in an arched band near the tip ; posterior
margin not so black as in the male. Secondary wings dusky
brown, with the veins, and a sixth-toothed posterior copper-
coloured band.
Caterpillar. Somewhat hairy, with short inconspicuous
hairs. vivid green and sprinkled with innumerable white
dots. ,
Chrysalis. At first green, then pale ash-coloured with a
dark dorsal line; a broad lateral stripe full ash-colour,
besides the dorsal line there are two white abbreviated ones,
one on each side of it.
Observation. This brilliant insect was first noticed by
Hudson, who captured it in Wales; but it has been found
very frequently since in Whittlesea~-Mere, and Messrs.
Standish met with it at the beginning of August flying
among reeds in the Mere near Yaxley, Suffolk.
LYCANA VIRGAUREA, MIDDLE COPPER.
Lewin, pl. 41, f.1,2. Donovan v. 5, p.173. Duncan pl. 29. Jig. 3.
Butterfly. Male above, similar to the preceding, but
nearly twice as small, and without the spots on the disk.
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Primary wings underneath, pale tawny or yellowish, with
eleven black spots scarcely ocellated, three placed longitu-
dinally near the base, then seven or eight in an undulated
band, less distinct towards the posterior margin. Secondary
wings above, with six black spots resting upon the black
posterior margin ; underneath tawny, with fewer and larger
black spots crowned with white; towards the posterior
margin some orange spots at the anal angle, where the
wings are somewhat emarginate, and there is a tendency to
atail. The female differs altogether from the male; the
wings above are more obscure. Primary wings with nume-
rous dots, and a nearly marginal band, consisting of confluent
brown spots. Secondary wings are brown rather than
tawny, with veins; a largish square spot with others smaller
and more indistinct in the disk of a tawny colour; besides a
knotty band consisting of six indentations at the posterior
margin also tawny. All the wings underneath are the same
as in the male.
Caterpillar. Dull green, hairy, with a yellow dorsal and
yellowish green lateral stripes, black head_and legs.
Chrysalis. Brownish yellow, with dark coloured wing-cases.
Observation. 'This is a very rare insect.
LYCANA CHRYSEIS, PURPLE-EDGED COPPER.
Duncan, pl. 30, fig, 1.
Butterfly. Wings subangulated: above bright copper-
colour, with the dots of the disk and all the margins of a
brownish purple. Primary underneath, with a yellowish
disk, and a cinereous margin, with numerous ocellated dots,
the pupil of which is black, and the iris white; three towards
the base placed longitudinally, six behind the middle in an
uudnlated band, and six at the posterior margin nearly
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obliterated. Secondary wings underneath, inclining to
cinereous, with numerous ocellated spots, ten scattered nearer
the base, and nearly twenty-two in three posterior bands,
besides one or two other fulvous spots towards the anal
angle; fringe white above, brown underneath. Female
above, more obscure and more spotted with black than that
of the preceding species.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. ‘This, like the preceding, is a rare species,
LYCENA PHLAAS, COMMON COPPER.
Lewin, pl.41. Donovan, v.13, p.466. Duncan, pl. 30, fig. 3.
Butterfly. Primary wings above, of a bright copper-colour,
with the posterior margin and ten discoidal spots black, two
anterior ones arranged longitudinally, and the rest nearer the
posterior margin placed in an irregular zigzag band, some
distant, some confluent. Underneath, the wings are rather
paler and more obscure with the same number of subocellated
black spots, three arranged longitudinally and seven trans-
versely ; posterior margin drab-colour, with three black
crescents near its inner part. Secondary wings above,
brownish-black, with a, five-toothed copper band at the pos-
terior margin, sometimes with a discoidal black line and two
black dots, and at others two white ones. Underneath drab-
coloured with numerous nearly obliterated black dots, and
an obsolete tawny band. Female altogether resembles the
male,
Caterpillar. Clear green, with a yellow dorsal stripe.
Chrysalis.
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Genus Potyommatus, pl. Ill, fig. 14.
Antenne rather short, with a rather abrupt largish com-
pressed knob, terminating in a lateral point ; joints more
than thirty.
Palpi longer than the head, scaly above, hairy below, last
joint without hairs.
Forelegs perfect.
Claws very short, simple ; foot cushions very short or obsolete,
Wings intire ; primary triangular and nearly wedge-shaped ;
secondary between ovate and triangular.
Egg, Caterpillar, and Chrysalis, as in Lycena.
POLYOMMATUS ARION, LARGE BLUE.
Lewin pl. 37,f.1,2. Donovan v. 6, p. 184. Duncan, pl. 32, fig. 1.
Butterfly. Wings above, brown with a blue disk. Primary
with five longitudinal black discoidal bars, with two or
three black dots above them, Underneath brownish ash-
coloured, with eight ocellated spots, two in the centre, and
six or seven arranged in an undulated band between them
and the posterior margin, all with a large black pupil, and
white iris; at the posterior margin are two rows of black
spots and crescents, with a very faint or obsolete iris.
Secondary underneath, brownish ash coloured, blue-green at
the base with eleven ocellated spots arranged in two bands,
the first near the base consisting of three, the second in the
middle angulated and interrupted, consisting of eight ; be-
tween the bands is a transverse discoidal crescent, and at
the margin two rows of subocellated black spots, as in the
primary wings. Female differs from the male in having
above larger, blacker, and more numerous spots, and the
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margins of the wing are browner. Fringe in both sexes
above white, and underneath white with brown bars.
Caterpillar.
Chrysalis.
Observation. Found generally in rocky situations covered
with bushes and brambles, on the blossoms of which it feeds.
Their flight is very slow and singular, flapping up their
wings nearly together, but though slow, they are shy and
difficult to catch, except with a bag-net fixed to a pole.