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WHITE ADMIRAL. 



PLATE XXVI. 



Liiiicnifis Camilla, Leach. Curtis. Duncan. 



" " HUBNER. WeSTWOOD. 



Papilio Camilla, LtNN.EUS. Haworth. 



'■' " Lewix. Doxovan. Harris. 



Papilio Sihilla, Fabricius, Stuart. 



This most elegant and graceful species is of decidedly local 

 distribution, though in several places it occurs in tolerable 

 plenty — "the Happy hunting grounds" of the Entomologist. It 

 is found in shady places in the retired depths of woods, where 

 the sun gleams through at intervals. It is fond of alighting 

 on the bramble blossom, the nectar of which it sips. R. B. 

 Postans, Esq. informs me that it is taken in the greatest 

 abundance in Hartley wood, near St. Osyth, Essex; and 

 also, though more sparingly, near Colchester and Dedham, in 

 the same county. It is also found near Rye, Sussex; in Coombe 

 Wood, near London; in a wood near Parley Heath, and the 

 New Forest, Hampshire; near Peterborough, Northampton, and 

 I believe at or near Lilford, in the same county; Ipswich, Suf- 

 folk; Enborne Copse, near Newbury, Berkshire; in Birch Wood, 

 Kent; abundantly in woods near Winchester; near Finchley, 

 Middlesex ; and one specimen of late years in the Isle of Wight, 

 where M. A. Bromfield, Esq. says that it used to be common 

 in the woods near Ryde. 



This Butterfly appears the second week in July. 



The caterpillar feeds on the honeysuckle. 



The expanse of the wings is from two inches and a quarter 

 to tAvo inches and a half; the upper surface of the fore wings 

 is dull brownish black, with a curved band of interrupted 



