ENTOMOLOGICAL CABINET. 



LIMENITIS. Fabricivs. 

 Family NYMPHAL1DJE. Swainson. 



Generic Character. Palpi longer than the 

 head, not contiguous, clothed with scales and slight- 

 ly hairy ; three-jointed, basal joint small oval ; se- 

 cond long, cylindric, slightly bent ; third longer than 

 the basal, elongate ovate : antenna long, gradually 

 clubbed ; club slender, round, obconic : wings some- 

 what triangular, the hinder slightly scolloped : eyes 

 pubescent : anterior legs short in both sexes, slen- 

 der, with a minute claw ; posterior long with double 

 claws. Caterpillar elongate, with obtuse spines on 

 the back, and bundles of hair on the sides. 



Chrysalis subangular, gibbous beneath, head case 

 beaked, suspended from the tail. 



White Admiral Butterfly. 



Sp. 1. Lim. Camilla. Wings above, brownish 

 black, indented with a central whitish band, between 

 which and the base is an ashy crescent of obscure 

 black marginal spots ; beneath, the central areolet 

 is inscribed with zigzag black markings, the lower 

 wings like the upper. 



Expansion of the wings 2 inches to 2 inches 6 

 lines. 



Inhabits woods in July. 



Mr. Haworth in his Lepidoptera Britannica, a 

 work that is now become very rare, observes, "The 

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