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row of black spots, beyond which the colour is grey ; the 

 under wings are ash-colour, tinged with blue, and having a 

 coppery band on the hinder margin with a series of black 

 spots on each side; before this, is another row of black 

 spots surrounded with bluish-white, then a transverse black 

 streak, and five black spots near the base. The caterpillar 

 is said to be green, with white dots, and to feed on a species 

 of dock. It is found principally in Wales and Huntingdon- 

 shire. There are three other species of this pretty genus, 

 but they are so extremely rare that it would be useless to 

 describe them in this elementary work ; for this reason I 

 shall also be satisfied with merely naming the beautiful 



Mancipium daplidice, Bath White, a very rare insect, 

 which received its English name from a piece of needle- 

 work executed at Bath by a young lady, from a specimen of 

 this insect said to be taken near that place. 



Parnassta Apollo, the Apollo Butterfly , is a doubtful 

 native, but so very beautiful that we are tempted to wish it 

 were less uncommon. 



