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PURPLE EMPEROR. 



EMPEROR OF MOROCCO. 

 PLATE XXXVI. 



Apalura Iris, Ochsenheimer. Leach. 



" " Stephens. Curtis. Duncan. 



Doxocopa Iris, Huener. 



Papilio Iris, Linn^us. Lewin. Wilkes. 



" " Haworth. Donovan. Harris. 



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

 the events of which are recorded iii my entomological diary, for on 

 that day did I first sec the Emperor on his throne — the monarch of 

 the forest clothed in his imperial purple, 



'Mille trahens varies adverse sole colores.' 



"The velvet nap which on his wings doth lie, 

 The silken downe with which his back is dight, 

 His glorious colours, and his glistering eies." 



Spenser. 



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 brotherhood, I had the happiness of beholding 

 His Majesty, or to speak more correctly. Their Majesties, though, 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 Barnwell Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire, during my absence 

 in successful search of the Large Blue, of which more anon, Mr. 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 Peelj to the students of the University of Glasgow, at 



