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TA li< VII. 



PAPILIO GILIPPUS. 



C H ESN UT- COLOURED BUTTERFLY. 



ASCLKPIAS JMPLEXtCJULIS* 



1ROAD WAVKD-LtAVEO SWALLOW* WORT. 



P. IX all* mtegerrimi* cc-ntoloribu* fulvU olbo rnacuUtik: marginc airo punflU albii. 



A i-TF.ii t ceiling on the pbnl here represented, the caterpillar changed to a chrv&lit 

 June 15th, and the btiuertlv came forth the ifGtli. It is not very common in 

 Georgia, and is 1 believe, not found in Virginia. 



How beautiful it the oceafiorul uniformity smell a* the id fia tic variety of Nature! This 

 butterfly, nearly related to the lall, feed* in it* ratcrnillir Haxc on a plant of the fune emu*, 

 iliou^li j dilleretit fpeciot: and I he two caterpillar* J*avc a great aifiuity to each other, though 

 one hai fix horns the other but four. The /*/*■ arc rxireioely f\m\hx, execjx in fire, ind 

 arc lufpcndrd in lite fame manner to a Icafl 



The fj*ex* of Swallow-wort now before Q| i>» webrlievc, a ncmuelVrijrf, though formerly 

 cultivated in the KctvG~riicri, and now inriened in Sirjofcph Bin IV* Herbarium. It thould 

 be in&Ttcd among tlic aril fpcoc* in uV Sjflttkt I'*$fljf*fMm r and may be denominated 

 Afclepia* amplcxieaulis filitfijfihk** t&ftuit mlabrii gLJwivtJt: fvfi wjjfb «my fc»Vj*& rW/, 





