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tinuation: the ridge of the upper wings is broad 

 and of a fine purple-brown colour: the head and 

 thorax yellowish white, and the body milk-white. 



Of the European species of this division beyond 

 comparison the finest is the Phalcena Junonia (Ph. 

 pavonia Lin.) a native of many parts of Germany, 

 Italy, France, &c. but not yet observed in Eng- 

 land. It measures about six inches in extent of 

 wings, and is varied by a most beautiful assort- 

 ment of the most sober colours, consisting of dif- 

 ferent shades of deep and light grey, black, brown, 

 &c. on the middle of each wing is an eye-shaped 

 spot, having the disk black, shaded on one side 

 with blue; surrounded with red-brown, and the 

 whole included by a circle of black: lastly, all 

 the wings are bordered by a deep edging of very 

 pale brown, with a whiter line immediately ad- 

 joining to the darker part of the wing: the an- 

 tennae are finely pectinated. The caterpillar, 

 which feeds on the apple, pear, &c. is hardly less 

 beautiful than the insect itself: it is of a fine 

 apple or yellowish-green colour with each seg- 

 ment of the body ornamented by a row of upright 

 prominences of a bright-blue colour, with -black 

 radiated edges, and surrounded by long black 

 filaments, each of which terminates in a clavated 

 tip. This larva, when ready for its change, en- 

 velops itself in an oval web with a pointed ex- 

 tremity, and transforms itself into a large short 

 chrysalis, out of which afterwards emerges the 

 moth. 



The Phalcena pavonia minor or smaller Peacock 

 v. vi. p. i. 15 



