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 PLATE CCLXXL 



PAPILIO HYPERANTHUS, 

 Ringlet Butterfly. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas clubbed at the end. Wings eredl when at reft. Fiy 

 hf day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings entire, brown. Beneath, three eyes or rings on the an- 

 terior, and five on the pofterior wings. 



PaPILIO Hyperanthus: alls integerrimis fufcis fubtus anticis 

 ocellis tribus, pofticis duobus tribufque. Linn. Syji, 

 Nat. 2. 768. 127. — Fn. Sv. 1043. — Fab. Ent, SyJi, 

 y. 3./. I./. 216. y^. 677. 

 Degeer. Inf. 2. tab. 2. fig. 9. lo. 

 S chaff. Icon. fab. 12 J. fig. I^ 2. 

 Efp. Pap. I. fab. 5. fig. I. 

 Naturf. 8. tab. 3. fig. D. 



The larva of this Butterfly is very rarely met with ; it feeds on 

 the roots of grafs; is hairy, of an afh colour, with a black line 

 down the fide, and the tail forked. The pupa is gibjbous, brown, 

 and fpotted with yellOw. 



Papilip 



