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les, basi distantes, coi^pore manifesto longiores ; articulus Imus 

 crassus, capite longior, 3tius Imo valde longior, apice 1-spino- 

 sus, 4tus Imo paullo longior, caeteri longitudine fere aequales ; 

 oculi ad antennarum basin fere divisi : prothorax fere quadra- 

 tus, nullo mo do armatus : elytra protliorace latiora, apice rotun- 

 data : pedes mediocres, femoribus paullo tumidis ; mesotibiis 

 vix emarginatis ; metatibiis paullo recurvis. Plan, quaterna- 

 ria. Nigra, lanugine fiilva undique obsita, punctisque nigris 

 iiTorata; utriusque elytri maculae 2 dorsales nigrae ; Ima major, 

 subrotundus, ante medium sita, 2da minor, oblonga, pone me- 

 dium sita. (Corp. long. '75 unc. lat. '225 unc.) 

 Nota. — Cerambycitum species 104 nunc enumeratae Musaeo Britan- 

 nico cum multis aliis omnium ordinum depositae. 



Edward Newman. 



Art. LXXXV.— Varieties. 



168. The Purple Emperor, 8fc. Knowing the difficulty which usu- 

 ally attends the capture of the Purple Emperor, I have thought that 

 the following notice might probably be of some use. During the 

 months of June and July, 1839, which, though at home very wet and 

 unfavourable to Entomology, were on the continent dry, hot and sun- 

 ny, — I spent most of my time in the forests which border the town of 

 Kissingen in Bavaria ; and being enough of an invalid to curtail my 

 rambling propensities, I had an excellent opportunity of observing the 

 habits of the butterflies with which the woods abound. Amongst 

 them none was more conspicuous, and few more abundant, than the 

 Purple Emperor. During its earliest appearance — for it was the first 

 time I had ever seen it alive, and was most anxious to obtain it — I 

 had many a fruitless chase after it, as it would come down to cool it- 

 self in the shady walks of the forest ; and if successful in its capture, 

 had the mortification of seeing its beautiful wings rubbed and broken 

 by its efforts to escape. Afterwards, when they became more com- 

 mon, and I was better acquainted with their habits, I had no difficulty 

 in obtaining as many as I chose. At the end of a long and very rapid 

 flight at the outskirts of the wood they would enter its most shaded 

 recesses, and settling wherever any moisture was to be met with, would 

 protrude into it their long trunks, and were soon heedless of my ap- 

 proach. I found a flat bagless net far the best when their wings were 



