

95 



TAB. XVIII. 



PAPILIO PROTEUS. 



SWALLOW-TAILED SKIPPER BUTTERFLY. 



CL1TOH1A HARIASA. LIS'N. 

 LARGE KKD CL1TORIA. OB TEA VIN't 





P. P. ili* eaudati* fufo* maculU feneflrati*, aiitcnnit uncinate 



The caterpillar of this rare fpede* I diftoracd by fccin K the butterfly lay fome 

 eegs upon the wild pea* vine, for the caterpillar* of all the Jpcclcs of Skippm li>!d 

 the leave* together for fcfety (like the Englitli Admirable. P. Alnbutla) which 

 make* them not cafy to ** ^covered. On the 2d of July it ipun itfeif up in the 

 leave*, and on ihc -tth changed to a chn r&U$ covered with a bluhh white powder, 

 as in the Red Undtrwifig. 'Hie ily appeared AuguA is. It breed* in auUK.ni 

 only* I afterwards dilcnvercd funic of ihcfc caterpillar* on another planl ot the 

 pea or bean tribe, TWl butterfly was plentiful in the year l?M, but 1 have not 

 (Slice met with it. 



ThU being one of ttic inort variable fpcoe* in ibe length of it* hind wings a* well « 

 general colour, h aptly iuxwxI /W«u by Umumf yet it U not really fo variable a> be 

 thought, foaw of his fuppofed ratktic* being unqueflioruUy <lirtinft fprcio. 



£ 



