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woods, and sit down on a stile, for the purpose of feasting his eyes with her 

 fascinating evolutions — 



■ " When swift Camilla scours the plain, 



Flies o'er the unbending corn, and skims along the main." 



Pope. 



The Rev. W. T. Bree has described a remarkable variety of this insect in the 

 Mag. of Natural History, Vol. 5, p. 667, taken near Colchester, in which the wings 

 above are entirely of a sooty black colour, and destitute of the white marking ; a few 

 lighter spots being visible here and there, just serving to trace out very faintly the 

 mere rudiments, as it were, of the ordinary white spots. 



" Unlike the Purple Emperor, it seems" (says the Rev. Revett Sheppard, in 

 Miss Jermyn's Butterfly Collector's Vade Mecum, 2nd Ed. p. 121) "to avoid the 

 sunbeams ; for it frequents the glades of woods, where it rapidly insinuates itself, by 

 the most beautiful evolutions and placid flight, through the tall underwood on each 

 side of the glades, appearing and disappearing like so many little fairies." 



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M1NOA CH.EROPHYLLATA. THE CHIMNEY SWEEPER MOTH. 



Plate XXX. fig. o. 



Synonyms. Phaleena (Geom.) Chserophyllata, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 886. Donov. Brit. Ins. vol. vii. 

 pi. 253. fig. 4. 

 Phalsena Atrata, Linn. Faun. Suec. no. 1274. 

 Minoa Chaerophyllata, Treitschke, Stephens. 



The antennae are like threads. This moth is totally black, except the apices of the superior 

 wings, which are white. It flies in woods the beginning of June. It is figured in the Plate 

 at (o). I believe it has never been described before. 



Expansion of the wings one inch. 



This is a very common species in woods and heathy places, especially where 



ferns abound. 



CALLIMORPHA MINIATA. THE RED ARCHES MOTH. 



Plate XXX. fig.^p. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Geom.) Miniata, Forster Centur. i. 75. 



Phalsena Rosea, Fabricius. Donovan Brit. Ins. 2. pi. 40. fig. inf. 

 Callimorpha Miniata, Stephens. 



Upper Side. The antennae are like fine threads. The head and thorax are of a lively red. 

 The superior wings are of the same colour, having two neat black lines, which cross them. The 

 outer one, by which I mean that which is near the fan edges, runs with a pretty serpentine motion, 

 like a rivulet. The abdomen and inferior wings are of a pale orange. The natural history of 

 this phalena is, I believe, entirely unknown. It is taken by beating the oaks, the beginning 



of July. 



Expansion of the wings 10— -16 lines. 



