142 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Linn. ( = Z. sibylla}, and L. drusilla, Bergstr. ( = L. Camilla, 

 Denis), is entirely confined to Europe and Northern and Western 

 Asia. L. dnisilla, which is common on the Continent, is more 

 bluish-black than L. Camilla, and the white spots are more 

 numerous and more detached. It differs a little in its habits, 

 although it so much resembles Z. Camilla in appearance, and 

 feeds, like the latter, on honeysuckle ; but it appears a little later 

 in the summer, and prefers to sport round bushes. 



Linnaeus, in 1767, described the sexes of L. sibylla under the 

 names of Papilio sibylla and P. Camilla, but the latter name was 

 subsequently adopted by continental entomologists for L. dru- 

 silla, though our "White Admiral" was generally called L. 

 Camilla by the older English writers on entomology. This once 

 gave rise to a very curious error. An amateur naturalist who 

 used to travel about in out-of-the-way parts of the country, and 

 make all sorts of wonderful discoveries, once announced that 

 he had caught the White Admiral in a county where it had 

 never been seen or heard of before, and where it was most un- 

 likely to be found. On being asked to verify his assertion, he 

 produced a specimen of L. drusilla. If this Butterfly is ever 

 rediscovered in the locality where he professed to have found 

 it, it will be enough ; but until then, it is hardly uncharitable 

 to imagine that he may have been fishing with a silver hook 

 for L, Camilla, and captured a continental specimen of L. 

 dnisilla instead. 



THE WHITE ADMIRAL. LIMENITIS CAMILLA. 

 (Plate XXIII. , Fig. 3 ; larva.pl. Hi., Fig. 7.) 



Papilio Camilla, Linn., Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 304 (1764); id. 

 Syst, Nat. (xii.), i., p. 781, no. 187 (1767^; Esper, 

 Schmett., i. (i), p. 188, pi. 14, fig. 3 (1777); Aurivillius, 

 Recens. Crit. Lepid. Mus. Ludov. Ulr., p. 101 (1882). 



