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and towards the anal angle is a row of blue spots, paler than 

 above, and partially bordered with black. 



"The caterpillar, which in its early stage is green, becomes 

 afterwards of a yellowish hue, and its skin is, as it were, 

 shagreened and transversely plaited. Its head is singularly 

 armed with four vertical yellow horns, tipped with red, of 

 which the two intermediate are the longest. A yellow line 

 passes along each side of the body in the region of the 

 stigmata, and the back is marked with four indistinct orange 

 spots. The true feet are black, the membranous ones green. 

 It feeds on the leaves of the strawberry-tree (Arbutus iinedo), 

 and never eats except during the night. Its habits are very 

 lethargic. During daytime it remains fixed and motionless on 

 its favourite plant, which it resembles in colour, and thus 

 escapes observation. The chrysalis is smooth, thick, carinated, 

 and of a coriaceous texture, the colour pale green. Two 

 broods or flights of the perfect insect are produced each year, 

 the first in June, the second in September. The caterpillars 

 of the autumnal brood survive the winter and are not trans- 

 formed into chrysalids till the ensuing May. The perfect 

 insects are then produced in about fifteen days. These 

 speedily deposit their eggs, which are hatched in June, and after 

 three months occupied in the usual transformations, the second 

 flight appears in September, and continues the race in the 

 manner above-mentioned. In many parts of France the 

 Butterfly is named the ' Pasha ivith Two Tails? " * 



Further particulars respecting the habits of this interesting 

 Butterfly, from the observations of Mr. de Vismes Kane, will 

 be found in my " European Butterflies and Moths" (pp. 23, 24), 

 to which I must refer the reader. The French entomologists 

 often use rotten cheese as a bait to attract this and other high 

 flying Butterflies within reach. 



* Wilson's " Illustrations of Zoology," fol. 27. 



