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tinuatlon: the ridge of the upper wings is broad 
and of a fine purple-brown colour: the head and 
thorax yellowish white, and the body milk-white. 
Of the European species of this division beyond 
comparison the finest is the Phalceua Junonia (Ph. 
pavonia Lin.) a native of many parts of Germany, 
Italy, France, &c. but not yet observed in Eng- 
land. It measures about six inches in extent of 
wings, and is varied by a most beautiful assort- 
ment of the most sober colours, consisting of dif- 
ferent shades of deep and light grey, black, broum, 
&c. on the middle of each wing is an eye-shajDed 
spot, having the disk black, shaded on one side 
with blue; surrounded with red-brown, and the 
whole included by a circle of black: lastly, all 
the wings are bordered by a deep edging of very 
pale brown, with a whiter line immediately ad- 
joining to the darker part of the wing: the an- 
tennae are finely pectinated. The caterpillar, 
which feeds on the apple, pear, &c. is hardly less 
beautiful than the insect itself: it is of a fine 
apple or yellowish-green colour with each seg- 
ment of the body ornamented by a row of upright 
prominences of a bright-blue colour, with black 
radiated edges, and surrounded by long black 
filaments, each of which terminates in a clavated 
tip. This larva, when ready for its change, en- 
velops itself in an oval web with a pointed ex- 
tremity, and transforms itself into a large short 
chrysalis, out of which afterwards emerges the 
moth. 
The Phalcena pavonia minor or smaller Peacock 
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