BRIMSTONE. 



PLATE III. 



Goneptenjx rhavmi, 

 Papilio rhamniy 

 Goniaj^tei'ijx rhamni, 

 Anteos rhamniy 

 Ganoris rliainrdj 



Lkac'h. Stephens. Curtis. Duxcan. 

 LiNN.EUs. Donovan. Lewin. Aliun. 

 Westwood. 



HUBNER. 



Dalman, 



If the imagination chooses so to please itself, it may look 

 npon our own country as a sort of epitome of the northern 

 hemisphere of the world, as to its natural productions; and thus 

 Ave shall find that on the south coast, from Torquay to Hastings 

 are our tropics; in the midland counties our temperate zone; in 

 Scotland our Arctic regions; and John o' Groat's House will answer 

 to the North Pole. Correspondingly hereto are our Butterflies 

 localized. Excepting in the case of some chance wanderer, 

 driven by we know not what storm, or tempest, or "favouring 

 gale," the races are, for the most part, distinct, and those which 

 flourish in the one district, would perish at once in the other, 

 through the difference of climate. 



This is a most beautifully-coloured Butterfly, whether seen 

 on the wing, in its zigzag, impetuous, and hurried flight, or 

 examined at leisure in the cabinet. In the latter case you seem 

 never to be able to get it in a sufficiently good light, so full 

 and bright are its colours, to admire it as it ought to be ad- 

 mired; and when first emerged from the chrysalis, and glittering 

 before you in the sun, it is indeed a most attractive object. 



In Yorkshire, and as far north as Newcastle, in Northum- 

 berland, and the lake district in Westmoreland, it occurs, but 

 not by any means so plentifully as in the more southern parts 

 of the country. It is very rare in the neighbourhood of Fal- 



