OF INSECTS AND REPTILES. 



2t. The leffer tortoife-Jliell Butterfly (v) is frequent in fields and 

 gardens. ft meafures between the tips of the wings, extended, 

 two inches. The body is black, the fore-parts of both the upper 

 wings variegated with ftreaks of black and a pale yellow alter- 

 nately, terminated by a white fpeck ; three black fpots below, on 

 a red ground, with a beautiful bright brown next the body ; the 

 red at the extremities bordered with a black lift, with a feries of 

 indented fpecks in it of a fky-blue, fucceeded by another black 

 one, edged on both fides with a light yellow, in an elegant pec- 

 tinated form. It frequently out-lives the winter by concealing 

 itfelf in private recefies, where neither winds or rains can hurt 

 it. 



The Eruca is of a deep olive-colour on the upper part, a feriea 

 of black fpots down the middle, one on each joint ; the fides 

 edged with a pale yellow line ; underneath another feries of 

 black fpots, fmaller, on a light hair-coloured ground ; the hol- 

 ders briftled. The chryfalis is a reddifh-brown. 



22. The tortoife-Jhell Butterfly, ivifh lacinlated -wings (w), is not 

 unfrequent in vale-meadows, and gardens, in Auguft. 



(v) Papilio urticaria vulgatiflima, rufo, nigro, caeruleo, & albo coloribus varia. Raj. 

 Inf. p. 117. n. i. Papilio teftudinarius minor. Lift. Goed. 3. f. 2. Papilio tetrapus ; alis 

 angulatis fulvis nigro-maculatis ; primariis punctis trfbus nigris. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 233. 

 n. 774. Lift. Goed. 3. f. 2. Albln. Inf. 4. f. 6. 



(w) Papilio ulmariae fimilis, fed minor} alis laciniatis j interioribus Jinea alba incurva no- 

 tatis. Raj. Inf. p. 118. n. 3. Pagilio teftudinarius, alis laceris. Petiv. Mus. Papilio alis 

 laciniatis. Allin. Inf. t. <\. f. 5. Papilio tetrapus ; alis angulatis fulvis nigro maculatis ; 

 fecundariis v. albo notatis. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 234. n. 775. 



23. The 



