OF INSECTS AND REPTILES. 



the tips of the wings, extended, three inches. The body, and 

 exterior parts of the wings are black, glofly and fhining, like 

 velvet ; irregular bright white fpots of different fizes near the tips 

 of both the upper wings ; a broad line of a deep beautiful fear- 

 let through the middle of each, met by a broader of the fame 

 colour from the extreme margin, of the under ones, which is 

 diftinguifhed by an elegant feries of fmall round black fpots* 

 and a little pectinated at the edges. From this irregular circle 

 of bright fcarlet, on a black velvet-ground, it obtained the name 

 of the Admiral. I have obferved it in my own garden to have a 

 particular liking to the yellow Martagon-\i\\y> of a ftrong/cocvlike 

 fcent, to which it would always return after frequent interrup- 

 tions, on one of which I caught this here defcribed under a fine 

 net 



The Eruca is adorned with fmall points of white on a black 

 ground, with fmall ftreaks of a pale red on the fides, indented 

 above the holders, which are briftled. The chryfalis is cinereous. 

 Both it and the Eruca fometimes vary in colour. 



20. The tortoife-Jhell Butterfly (u) is not unfrequent in alpine 

 woods and fhady paftures, in July and AugulL I have alfo ob- 

 ferved it in gardens, 



arcuata coccinea. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 235. n. 777. Lift. Goed. p. 10. f. 4. Raj. Inf. 

 p. 126. Aibln. Inf. Willies. Inf. t. 2. f. 3. & t. 7. f. 5. 



(u) Papilio urticariam referens major, alls amplioribus, quam Ulmariam vocitare foliti 

 fumus. Raj. Inf. p. 118. n. 2. Et, Eruca mediae magnitudinis, corpore e cinereo nigri- 

 cante, fpihulis raris in quolibet annulo ramofis fulvis. Ejujd. p. 306. n. 14. Papilio teftu- 

 dinarius major. Petiv. Muf. p. 34. n. 315. Papilio tetrapus ; alis angulatis fulvis nigro 

 maculatis ; primariis puntis quatuor nigris. Linn, Faun. Suec, p. 232. n. 773. Lift. 

 Goed. 5. f. 3. Albin, Inf. 56. 



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