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PLATE CCCCXXXVI, 
PAPILIO PRUNI. 
BLACK HAIR-STREAK BUTTERFLY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne terminating in a club: wings erect when at reft. Fly by 
day. 
SPECIFI€E CHARACTER 
AND 
SYNONYMS. 
Wings flightly tailed; above brown with a red fpot at the tip of 
- the lower-ones: on the pofterior pair beneath a fulvous marginal band 
dotted with black. a 
Paritio Prunt: alio fubcaudatis fupra fufcis: pofterioribus fubtus 
fafcia marginali fulva nigro punétata. Linn. Fn. 
Suec. 1071.—Gmel. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2341, 
Hespersa Pruni. Fab. Ent. Syfi. 3. 377. 70. 
The larva of this fpecies is of a green colour with a pale lateral 
line; the pupa brown with the head white. 
This kind is found in the larva ftate on the cherry, bullace, and 
other trees of the Prunus genus, whence its name. It appears on the 
wing in July, and is not common. 
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