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WHITE ADMIRAL. 



PLATE XXVI. 



Limcnitis Camilla, Leach. Curtis. Duncan. 



" " HUBNER. WeSTWOOD. 



Papilio Camilla, Linnaeus. Haworth. 



" " Lewin. Donovan. Harris. 



" Sihilla, Fabricius. Stuart. 



This most elegant and graceful species is of decidedly local distri- 

 bution, 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. P. 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, abundantly in woods near 

 Winchester, and in the New Forest, Hampshire; Haslemere, Surrey; 

 near Peterborough, and in Sywell Wood, near Northampton, and I 

 believe at or near Lilford, in the county "of that ilk;" Ipswich, 

 Suffolk; Enborne Copse, near Newbury, Berkshire; in Birch VYood, 

 Kent; 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. J. Wesley, Esq. took several and 

 saw others there in 1855. It also occurs near Weston-super-Mare, 

 in Somersetshire; likewise in Woolmer Forest. 



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 two 

 inches and a half; the upper surface of the fore wings is dull brownish 

 black, with a curved band of interrupted large white spots, rather 

 outside the centre, the middle one being very much smaller than the 



