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LEPIDOPTERA. 



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This is one of the largest and the most beautiful of the European 

 butterflies. The wings are variegated with yellow and black ; the 

 eyes, antennae, and trunk are black. The body is yellow on the 

 sides and underneath, and black above. The front wings have 

 rounded edges ; the hind ones, on the contrary, are notched, and one 

 of these notches is prolonged into a sort of tail. The first are black, 



Fig. 141, — Papilio Alexanor. ' 



spotted and striped with yellow ; the second have their upper part 

 and middle yellow, with some touches only of black. Near the 

 margin is a broad black band, dusted with blue ; lastly, six yellow 

 spots in the form of a crescent run along the border, and end in a 

 magnificent eye of a reddish colour, bordered with blue. 



The caterpillar of this species is large, smooth, and of a beautiful 

 light green, with a transverse black band on each ring. These 

 bands are sprinkled with orange spots. It lives on the fennel, carrot, 

 and other Umbellifer^. If teased, it thrusts from the first ring after 



