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THE ALDERMAN BUTTERFLY. 



nearly five inches long ; of an ash colour, edged and tipped with yel- 

 lowish white underneath; the colour of the upper surface unknown. 

 Colour of the iris unknown ; and, as in the common species, the third 

 quill feather of the wing is the longest. 



Tooting, Surrey, Nth Dec, 1832. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THE ALDERMAN BUTTERFLY (Ammiralh 

 Atalanta, RENNIE), FROM THE EGG TO THE ADULT INSECT. 



BY MYNHEER J. C. SEPP, OF AMSTERDAM.* 



1. Egg natural size; 2. Egg magnified. 3. The young caterpillar concealed in a folded leaf; 

 4. Caterpillar in its second skin ; 5. Caterpillar in its third skin ; 6. Caterpillar in its last skin ; 

 7. Caterpillar about to change into a chrysalis ; 8. This change farther advanced; 9. The 

 chrysalis complete. 



LIKE all other butterflies, this species originates from an egg, which, 

 however, is very rarely met with, because it is very small and green ; 

 almost indeed of the same colour as the stinging nettle (Urtica. 



* Translated from the Dutch work, De Wondeten Gods, by C. Thonan, Esq. London. 



