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PLATE CCLXXIX. 



PAP I L 10 MEGAERA. 

 Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas clubbed at the end. Wings in general deflexed when 

 at reft. Fly by day, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings dentated yellowifh brown, with dark marks acrofs. One 

 eye on the anterior pair: Five on the pofterior pair above, and fix 

 beneath. 



Papilio Megaera: alls dentatis luteis fufco fafciatis: anticis 

 ocello, pofticis fupraquinis, fubtus fex. Linn. Syji, 

 Nat, 2. 771. 142, — Fab. Ent. SyJi. T. 3.^. I. p. 94. 

 1()2.--^S chaff. Icon. tab. 148. Jig. 3, 4, 



This Butterfly . is common in meadows in July. The larva is 

 green, hairy, with a bifid tail ; it feeds on grafs, and changes to th? 

 pupa ftate in June. 



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