406 INSECTS. 



the month of August on umbelliferous plants. The larve is solitary 

 and glabrous; furnished with tentacles, annulate with black and 

 green, and dotted with red ; the pupe is yellowish. 



4. P. Apollo. Wings entire, white, spotted with black ; lower 

 ones with four eyes above, and six beneath. This is also a beau- 

 tiful insect, somewhat larger than our great cabbage butterfly ; it 

 inhabits Europe, and has been occasionally found in our own gar- 

 dens. It belongs to the section Parnassii. The larve is solitary, 

 furnished with tentacles, silky, black, with two red dots on the 

 segment on each side; pupe slightly folliculate, ovate, blueish, with 

 red dots on each side on the fore-part. 



5. P. Brassicae. Common large white, or cabbage butterfly. 

 Wings rounded entire, white : tip of the upper pair brown, and 

 (in the male) two brown spots. Inhabits Europe, and is known 

 to every one. Larve cinereous, dotted with black, with three sul- 

 phur lines ; tail black ; pupe pale-green, with three yellow lines, 

 and three globular segments. A species of the Danai section. 



P. Io. Peacock butterfly. Wings angular, indented, fulvous, 

 spotted with black, and a large blue eye in each, An elegant spe- 

 cimen, inhabiting Europe and our own country. It belongs to the 

 division nymphales. The larve is spinous, black, dotted with 

 white, legs ferruginous : pupe ten-toothed, green with gold-dots, 

 bifid behind. 



7. P. Iris. Wings indented, brown with a blue gloss, and whitish 

 interrupted band on each side ; all with a single eye ; the eyes on 

 the upper pair above blind. Found in our own gardens and in 

 Europe generally : belongs also to the nymphales. The male is 

 spotted with white on the upper wings, and is without the eye. 

 The larve is green with two horns, and oblique pale lines; pupe 

 greenish, bifid at the tip. 



[Linn. Fabricius, Turton, Pantolog. 



