144 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



frequents the glades of woods, where it rapidly insinuates itself 

 by the most beautiful evolutions and placid flight through the 

 tall underwood on each side of the glades, the insects appearing 

 and disappearing like so many little fairies." 



The White Admiral measures about two inches across the 

 wings, which are of a brownish-black colour, with the fringes 

 spotted with white, and a row of more or less confluent white 

 spots across all the wings, interrupted in the middle of the fore- 

 wings, but more regular on the hind-wings. There are also 

 some white spots near the tip of the fore-wings, and an indistinct 

 one in the cell, which latter is much larger and better marked 

 in the allied species, L. drusilla (Bergstr.). 



Towards the anal angle of the hind-wings is a rusty blotch 

 marked with two black spots, and there are two rows of obscure 

 dark spots between the white band and the hind-margin. The 

 prevailing colour on the under side is brownish-yellow ; all the 

 white spots of the upper side are visible, with the addition of a 

 few others, and most of them have a faint pearly lustre. The 

 base of the hind-wings and the body beneath are pale blue, and 

 the yellowish-brown portions of the wings are streaked and 

 spotted with black. The antennae are rust-brown at the tip and 

 on the under side. 



We add woodcuts of the under surface of the usual form of 

 this Butterfly, and of both surfaces of one of the black varie- 

 ties which are occasionally met with. The larva is green, with 

 rust-coloured hairy tubercles, and a white line on the sides. 

 The belly and pro-legs are paler, and the head is red. It 

 feeds on honeysuckle in May. 



The allied species, L. drusilla (Bergstr.), is not uncommon 

 on the Continent ; it has a bluish shade, a distinct white dis- 

 coidal spot on the fore-wings, and a broader and straighter white 

 band on the hind-wings. Owing to the confusion in the names, 

 I append the principal synonymy of the continental species. 



