BUTTERFLY. 20Q 



lighter undulations, and three large ocellated spots 

 on each wing. It is a native of South-America, 

 and proceeds, according to Madam Merian, \vho 

 has figured it in her work on the Surinam Insects, 

 from a large yellow 7 caterpillar, beset with numer- 

 ous, upright, sharp, black spines. It changes into 

 an angular chrysalis, of a brown colour, and di- 

 stinguished by having the proboscis projecting in 

 a semicircular manner over the breast: from this 

 chrysalis, in about fourteen days, proceeds the 

 complete insect. 



The P. Machaon is an insect of great beauty, 

 and may be considered as the only British species 

 of Papilio belonging to the tribe of Equites*. It 

 is commonly known among the English collect- 

 ors by the title of the Swallow-Tailed Butterfly, 

 and is of a beautiful yellow, with black spots or 

 patches along the upper edge of the superior 

 wings: all the wings are bordered with a deep 

 edging of black, decorated by a double row of 

 crescent-shaped spots, of which the upper row is 

 blue, and the lower yellow: the under wings are 

 tailed, and are marked at the inner angle or tip 

 with a round red spot bordered with blue and 

 black. The caterpillar of this species feeds princi- 

 pally on fennel and other umbelliferous plants, 

 and is sometimes found on rue. It is of a green 

 colour, encircled with numerous black bands 

 spotted with red, and is furnished on the top of 



* Unless we admit the Papilio Podalirius to be a British 

 species also . 



v. vi. P. i. 14 



