OP INSECTS AND REPTILES. 



jy. The gdd-yelhiv and broivn Butterfly (r) is frequent in fha-- 

 dowy mountainous paftures in July and Auguft. The tipper 

 wings are of a bright gold-yellow, elegantly waved with a dark 

 brown ; a beautiful eye, white, with broad circles of black near 

 the tips ; four of the fame kind, but fmaller, near the extremi- 

 ties of the under ones ; which are bordered with narrow iemicir- 

 cular lines of black, a yellowifh-brown, and a pale yellow. It 

 delights much to reft on dry banks, Hones, and rocks. 



1 8. The finally 'elloivi/Ij i-red Butterfly, -with black fpots (sj, appears 

 in ihady vales and paftures, in the latter end of May, or the be- 

 ginning of June. The body and antennae are black ; the upper 

 wings of a yellowim-red, gloily and fplendent, like a rich fat tin, 

 fpotted with black, and edged with a deep brown j the under 

 wings of a dark chefnut-colour, with a narrow border of a 

 bright yellowifli-red, elegantly fpotted with black at the extre- 

 mities. 



19. The large flately Butterfly, called The Admiral (tj, is a vifitant 

 of gardens and fields in the harveft months. It meafures between 



the 



(r) Papilio media, alls fulvo f. rufo & nigricante colore variis cum ocello prope extimum 

 angulum alarum exteriorem. Raj. Inf. p. 123. n. 15. Papilio oculatus ex aureo et fufco- 

 marmoratus. Petiv. Muf. p. 34. n. 312. Papilio ultima parte alae exterioris clypeolo ni- 

 gro, quern medium pun&um eburneum ornat decorata. Merret. Pin. p. 198. n. 10. Fa- 

 pilio tetrapus ; alis rotundatis fufco-nebulofis ; primariis fequi-ocello, fecundariis quiuis 

 ocellis. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 238. n. 785. 



(s) Papillio parva, alis exterioribus circa margines nigricantibus, media parte run's, ferici 

 inftar fplendentibus, maculis longis nigris pidis. Raj. Inf. p. 125. n. 20. Papileo minor 

 aureus ex nigro permaculatus. Pttlv. Muf. p. 34. n. 317. Papilio hexapus ; alis rotun- 

 datis fulvis ; utrinque pundlis nigris. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 247. n. 807. 



(t) Papilio major nigrefcens, alis maculis rubris & albis pulchre illuftratis. Petiv. Muf. 

 p. 3^. n. 327. Papilio tetrapus ; alis denticulatis nigris alboque maculatis; omnibus fafcia 



arcuata 



