APOLLO BUTTERFLY. 135 



ot tne upper wings bearing five pretty large black 

 spots, and each of the hinder ones two large round 

 crimson spots, with a white pupil, surrounded exter- 

 nally by a black circle. The extremity of the wings is 

 naked and transparent, appearing as if varnished, pretty 

 thickly sprinkled with minute black dots, which form 

 a faint flexuose cross band at some distance from 

 the margin, and parallel with it. The base and an- 

 terior edge of the primary wings are covered with 

 black dots ; the abdominal margin of the hinder pair 

 with similar points and long whitish hairs, as far as 

 the extremity of the abdomen, beyond which there 

 is a curved patch of black. The markings on the 

 under side nearly correspond to those just described : 

 some of the black spots on the upper wings, how- 

 ever, have occasionally a red mark in the centre : 

 and on the hinder pair there are four red spots, bor- 

 dered with black, forming a kind of cross-band near 

 the base, while the anal black patch often has a red 

 streak in the middle. The body is black, with whit- 

 ish hairs on the abdomen, and reddish ones on the 

 front of the thorax : the antennas white, with a black 

 knob. 



The caterpillar is of a beautiful velvet-black co- 

 lour, with two rows of deep orange spots on each 

 side, one near the back, the other towards the belly : 

 the incisures are glossed with blue, and the whole 

 body is clothed with short black hairs. It feeds on 

 the Orpine ( Sedum telephhanj, and various kinds 

 of Saxifrage, particularly Saxifraga pyramidalis. 



