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LIMENITIS CAMILLA. 



The White Admiral. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Papilionidae Lat.^ Leach. 



Type of the Genus Papilio Camilla Linn. 



LiMENiTis Fah., Leach. — Nymphalis Lat. — Papilio Linn., Fab., Haw. 

 Antennae inserted on the crown of the head between the eyes 

 cylindric, composed of numerous joints covered with close scales 

 above, terminated by a slender elongated obconic club, denuded 

 at the apex (fig. 1). 



Labrum attached to the clypeus minute triangular. 

 Mandibles attached to the clypeus, remote, parallel, ciliated. 

 MaxillcE spiral, long and slender, with a minute palpus at the 

 base of each. 



Palpi parallel, not contiguous, porrected obliquely, as long as the 

 head, 3-jointed, covered with scales and hair (4,4), basal joint 

 oval, 2nd long, cylindric, slightly curved, 3rd elongate ovate, 

 slightly mucronate (4 a). 

 Eyes pubescent, minutely reticulated (7, the head viewed beneath). 

 Wings somewhat triangular, not much longer than broad, rounded, 

 entire, a groove on the abdominal margin to receive the body. Feet 

 alike in both sexes, the anterior pair very small and slender, the 

 tibia covered with close hairy scales, the tarsus formed of 1 joint 

 (8 c) covered ivith close long hair extending beyond the apex, which 

 is terminated by a little claw (8). 4 posterior legs long, tarsi 

 5-jointed, terminated by Claws a?id Pulvilli, with membranous pu- 

 bescent, bifid appendages at the base as in Venessa. 

 Larvae long cylindric with several pair of obtuse hairy spines on the 



back and fascicles of hair down the sides. 

 Pupae suspended, head case beaked, gibbose on the underside. 



Camilla Linn. Syst. Nat. 2. 781. 187. — Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 29. n. 34. 

 Above dull black, variegated with darker spots ; superior wings 

 with 5 large and 5 or 6 small white spots, inferior wings with an 

 oblique white fascia, attenuated towards the anal angle, where 

 there are 2 dull red ocelli, cilia spotted alternately black and 

 white. Beneath ferruginous yellow : superior wings with seve- 

 ral white and black spots : inferior pale blue at the base and ab- 

 dominal margin, a broad white fascia across the middle, a few 

 spots near the margin whitish, and many more black. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



