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PURPLE EMPEROR. 



E:\rPKROR OF MOKOcrn. 



PLATE XXXVI. 



Apatura Iris, Ochseuheimee. Leach. 



" " Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



Doxocopa Iris, Hubneb. 



Papilio Iris, Linn.eus. Lewin. Wilkes. 



" " Haworth. Donovan. Harris. 



The 19th. of July, 1852, must ever be the most memorable 

 one, the events of which are recorded in my Entomological diary, 

 for on that day did I first see the Emperor on his throne — 

 the monarch of the forest clothed in his imperial purple, 



'Mille trahens varies adverse sole colores' — 



One! two!! three!!! "Allied Sovereigns!" Thanks to the 

 obliging hospitality of the Rev. William Bree, the curate of 

 Polebrook, ' to whom I had no introduction but that which 

 the freemasonry of Entomology supplies to its worthy brother- 

 hood, I had the happiness of beholding His Majesty, or to 

 speak more correctly. Their Majesties, thongh, as is only 

 proper, at a most respectful distance; they at the "top of the 

 tree," and I on the humble ground. The next day, in the 

 same wood, at Ashton Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, 

 during my absence in successful search of the Large Blue, of 

 which more anon, ]\Ir. Bree most cleverly captured one, by 

 acting on the principle — an invaluable one, as I have always 

 found it, long before its enunciation by the late Sir Robert 

 Peel, to the students of the University of Glasgow, at his 

 installation as Rector, in the best speech, by the way, if I 



