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 TAB, II. 



PAPILIO ILIONEUS, 



SASSAFRAS BLACK SWALLOW-TAIL HUTTKRFLY, 



LAURUS SASSAFRAS. LItfK 



* A * S A 1* H A S TREK. 



P. V„ T. ali* cauditU merit : pofticu Umbo rxrulrfcrmibiii anculo ani fulvo * fubcus max u* 



1U btfariu rubrit fubocellaribiiH. 

 r^ki^Cboct* m* am* ««/. r.4 *' 



It* food i* the lallafra*, the eateq>iilar folding a Leaf together for an habitation, 

 and removing to a new one, a* it* Itilicnancc around W cxhatiilcd. Thclc caterpil- 

 lars exhale a remarkable fecnt. whence they are fomctimc* called Mi How -w nnn^ 

 Having changed in the beginning of October, they remained in the chrvfuli* (late 

 till the toil) of March. One of them in Virginia changed Odober 13th, and the 

 fly did not come out till April &\\\, This butterfly n* frequent about hlotibint in 

 (he fpring ; and a* the weather grow* hotter, refort* to wet place* in court-yard*, 

 fords of rivulcto, etc. 



After much itudy and confutation we liarc not been able 10 refer tbU infect to any Lin* 

 naran or Fabritiaji fpeck** Whether it may be the Glantw of Fabriciut in hi* new work f (ha: 

 of lib Mantifla it now named I*tukm$) t it furcly cannot be the original Gltww of Limurot, 

 figured b>- Clerck, 1,04./ I. and by Cramer. M3&./A.& which U clearly dill iuguifhtd 

 by ihc rcnurkatrfc brown line on the umler fide of it* hind wing*, a* well at by it* general 

 colouring and marking. Mr- Jonc*, whofe opinion it of ihc firll authority, fuppofed our 

 rij;1it-luud figure, No* 3, to lie Tralm of Limueus whirJ* it ceruinlv much rvicinWe*, and 

 the other to be a diflWrM fjKcic*. For the we mull rely on ihc accuracy of Mr Abbot. If 

 No. -.be a variety of Trwtni* the caterpillar, Jo different from that in our Lift tiljtc, mull 

 belong only 10 Xo* t, of which No. 3. fcemi indubitably the under-fide, and which we here 

 drfcribc a* new by the name of Ithwu. 



