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The Entca, for its majeftic form, and beautiful colours, is 

 called The Beau *. The belly and fides are a yellowim green* 

 parted by a longitudinal line of deep purple, with a feries of 

 fmall, oblong, white fpots, one on each joint, in a regular or- 

 der, and a ihort feries of fmall round eyes above it, and more 

 irregular ; a deep purple, circled with white, one larger than 

 the reft, and .{landing lower. The upper part, from the head to 

 the tail, is of a bluiih-grcen, with bright white fpots, like a 

 beautiful mantle, or cloak loofely caft over it, with a graceful 

 eafe, edged with purple and white, feeming as if fattened under 

 the firft pair of holders, and with two large purple fpots at each 

 angle or corner of the head, and a fmaller on the moft promi- 

 nent and elevated part of the neck, contracted, and held up, as 

 it were, to fhew the beauties underneath. An elegant broad 

 golden circle is round 'the face ; a deep velvet-rofe colour within^ 

 a fhort narrow line of black down the middle, with an edging 

 of yellow. The forefeet are black, elegantly fpotted with white. 

 The tail is long, and forked, with the fame variegations to the 

 middle, and of a rofe -colour to the extremities. It protrudes 

 and draws in its tortoife-like head at pleafure, under its rofe- 

 coloured embroidered veil. If molefted, or provoked, it inftantly 

 mews its refentment by unflieathing a pair of fcarlet points at 

 its tail, which, when touched, are foft, and feem n n defigned to 

 do mifchief. So that it is as harmlefs, as it is beautiful. The 

 foliage of the willow, and poplar, are its f tvourite refuge and 

 food. The chryfalls is large, red, and fliaded with black. 



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Vagipennia, or infecls with cafe-wings, of beauty or curiofity, 

 are not obferved with us in any great variety. 



* Erucabicauda elegantiflima, ViNULAdidla. Raj. Inf. I. c. n. 3. Vide, Allin. I.e. 



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