lated wings : it may however be observed that the antennae 

 are not capitate but clavate, and the long tuft of scales below 

 them as represented at figure 7*, is not a less important di- 

 stinction. 



Many species of the beautiful family to which our insect 

 belongs live through the winter, and delight us with their vernal 

 visits : and amongst the earliest of these heralds of spring is the 

 Brimstone Butterfly, making its appearance in the neighbour- 

 hood of woods and even sporting in our gardens when the 

 sun's rays first begin to cheer and animate all nature ; and the 

 eggs which are then deposited produce green caterpillars that 

 feed upon the Buckthorn [Rhamnus catharticus), and again 

 appear as butterflies in August. 



Pajnlio RJiamni was described by Linnaeus, and has been 

 figured in Donovaji's British Insects (vol. 5. plate 145.): the 

 females are of a very pale yellow, and the males are of a fine 

 sulphur colour, but not quite so dark perhaps as the extraor- 

 dinary variety represented in our plate, which approaches so 

 near to G. Cleopatra that it appears only to require the in- 

 terstices to be filled up with the orange colour that variegates 

 the upper wings to obtain the perfect character of the male 

 of that species ; which is the more remarkable, from G. Cleo- 

 imtra never having been detected in this country ; otherwise 

 we should have been disposed to have referred it to that species. 

 This beautiful variety was taken many years back at Peckham 

 near London by Mr. Ingall, by whom it was presented to 

 A. H. Haworth, Esq., in whose valuable collection it is now 

 preserved, and to whose politeness we owe the opportunity 

 of laying a figure of it before our readers. 



The plant is Mclica imijlora (Wood Melic-grass). 



