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23. The peacock 's-eye Butterfly (x), called by a curious foreigner, 

 The >ueen of Butterflies *, is often feen in fields and gardens in 

 the warm fummer-months, and, in cold ones, in clofe retreats. 

 It meafures between the tips of the wings, extended, fomcwhat 

 more than three inches. The body is a fine brown. The edges 

 of the upper ones next the head marbled with ftreaks of black 

 and . flraw-colour, with a large and beautiful eye or moon near 

 the tip of each ; a large eye or moon on each of the under wings, . 

 the extremities adorned with a beautiful brown, and pectinated. 

 From the refemblance of thefe eyes or moons to thofe on the 

 Peacock's tail, it had its name of The Peacock's, Eye. 



The Eruca is adorned with numerous minute fpecks of white 1 

 on a black ground; the head jet-black; the holders a light 

 brown, and briftled ; the chryfalis a pale green. 



MOTHS of confiderable beauty are fometimes obferved with us 

 in warm fummers. They are diflinguiflied from Butterflies by 

 their Antenn<e, which are attenuated to a point; thofc of Butter- 

 flies being clavated.. There is another generical diftincftion in 

 a fpecies of them- more remarkable.. The crown and face re- 

 femble thofe of an owl, with a. thick plumage on their legs. 

 They are lucifug*.. They fly abroad only in the evening and flill 

 filence of the night, not feen. in the . day, unlefs disturbed in 

 their recefies. 



(x) Oculus Pavonis. Lift. Goed. p. I. f. I. Papilio elegantiflima ad urticariam acce- 

 dens. fnigulis alis maculis oculos itnitantibus. Raj. Inf. p. 122. n. 13. Papilio oculus- Pa- 

 vonis di&us. Petiv. Muf. p. 34. n. 3-4. Alb'm. Inf. t. 3. 4. IPlIkts. Inf.- t. I. 4. 

 Papilio tetrapus ; alis angulatis fulvis nigro maculatis ; omnibus ocello cifcruleo-variegatd. 

 linn. Faun. Suec. p. 234. n. 776. 



* Regina omnium. Mouffet. Inf. lat.' p; 92. f. infim* 



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