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Even in its estate of caterpillar, the Apatura Iris is a dis- 

 tinguished insect, distinguished by a pair of horns, and by the 

 oblique stripes of yellow which lace his green doublet. By 

 good luck, or good looking for, we may light upon him, in the 

 month of May, in feeding " for the Purple," either on his own 

 royal oak, or on the broad-leaved sallow. 



We have extolled already the glories of that beautiful 

 Vanessa, called the " Admiral of the Red ; '' nor must we 

 overpass entirely the less showy endowments of the " Admiral 

 of the White,"* standing alone, we believe, in another division. 

 He displays no gorgeous colours none more brilliant than 

 bars, and spots of white and sable, in a field of brown ; nor has 

 he gained celebrity in fight, though, for his sailing flights his 

 graceful evolutions on the ocean of air he has been pronounced 

 without a rival. 



It is related bv Mr. Haworth, that an old aurelian of London 



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was so enraptured with the elegance of this butterfly's mode 

 of flight, that long after he was able to pursue it he used to 

 go to the woods, and sit down on a stile, for the sole purpose 

 of feasting his eyes on its fascinating movements. The 

 caterpillar is a feeder on the honeysuckle. 



ID. the genus known to naturalists as that of Hipparchia, 

 we have another of the butterfly tribes, more distinguished for 



* Lime n it es Camilla , 



