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PLATE CCLXXVIII. 



PAPILIO POLYCHLOROS. 



Wood Tortoiseshell Butterfly. 



GENERIC CHARACTER, 



Antennae clubbed at the ends. Wings_ered when at reft. Fly 

 by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 

 Wings angulated, brownilh orange, fpotted with black. 



Papilio Polychloros : alls angulatis fulvis nigro maculatis : 

 anticis fupra punflis quatuor nigris. Linn. Syji. Nat. 

 2. 777. 166. — Fn. Sv. 1057. — Fal>. SyJi. Ent. t. 3. 

 p I. I2i.fp,2']2. 

 Merian Eur op, tab. I . 

 Roef. Inf. I. pap. I. tab, 2. 

 Schceff. Icon. tab. 146. fig, 1,2. 

 Ammir. tab. 15. 

 Frifch, Inf. 6. tab. 3. 

 Wilks. pap. 56. tab. 3. fl. 5. 



There is a ftriking fimilarity in form and colour between this 

 fpecies and Papilio Urtica;, already figured in this work. Col- 

 ledtors have hence denominated the two fpecies the TortoifefticU 



H 2 Butterflies ; 



