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BREPHA PARTHENIAS. THE ORANGE UNDERWING MOTH. 



Plate XXXV. fig. i. 



Synonyms. Phalsena (Noctua) Parthenias, Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 835. Bonov. Brit. Ins. 1 . pi. 246. f. 1. 

 Brepha Parthenias, Ochsenheimer, Hubner, Stephens, Curtis. 

 Bombyx Vidua, Fabricius, Wiener Vers. 



Upper Side. The antennae are like fine threads. The head, thorax, and superior wings 

 are of a light brown, clouded with many broad shades. The inferior wings are of a deep orange 

 colour, having a large cloud of black at the abdominal edge. They are taken in woods, the 

 beginning of April. 



Expansion of the wings one inch and a quarter. 



PAPILIO MACHAON. THE SWALLOW-TAIL BUTTERFLY. 



Plate XXXVI. 



Synonyms. Papilio (Eq. Ach.) Machaon. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii. 750. Lewin's Papil. pi. 36. Bonov. 

 Brit. Ins. pi. 211. Samouelle Compend. pi. 5. fig. 1 . Buncan Brit. Butt. pi. 4. f.l . 

 Wilkes' Eng. Moths, Sfc. pi. 93. Stephens, Curtis, Leach, Boisduval, Horsfield, 

 Ochsenheimer, Fabricius. 

 Amaryssus Machaon, Balm. Sw. Taans. 1816. 

 Royal William Butterfly, Pet. P«p.pl. 2. fig. 5. 



Upper Side. The eyes and nose are hlack, (the palpi are very small). The eyes are encircled 

 with yellow; which continues along the sides, some way of the thorax, which is hlack. The superior 

 wings and inferior wings are yellow : the former having a cloud, which extends from the thorax 

 some way into the wing. Another large hlack spot, nearly the size of a horse-hean, covers the 

 middle part of the tahle ; and another ahout the same size just without the bar tendon. These 

 spots all join to the sector edge. The fan edges of both superior and inferior wings have a broad 

 border of black, in which are many yellow spots ; one on each membrane. The abdomen is 

 yellow, having a broad list of black down the upper part. At each of the abdominal corners 

 is an eye-like spot of red, encircled with black. Each inferior wing hath a kind of tail, of about 

 half an inch in length, strengthened by the third fan tendon. All the tendons are black and 

 conspicuous. The upper side is shewn at (/), and the under at (g). 



The caterpillars feed on meadow saxifrage ; when young they are very dark-coloured, as 

 at (a) ; at which time they have also two red horns, which they can extend or retract at pleasure. 

 In the last skin, which happens about the end of September, these are lost ; and the caterpillars 

 appear as at (b) : when full fed they spin themselves up against a leaf, stick, &c. fastening the tail 

 part, and bringing another thread round the middle. See the figure at (c), which is represented 

 as making its spinning or fastening : here it changes into chrysalis, seen at (d) and (e) ; and the 

 flies appear the May following. From these proceed another brood, which comes to the fly state 

 in August. 



Expansion of the wings three inches and a half. 



This beautiful butterfly, the largest of our native species is very local in this 

 country, occurring in considerable abundance in the fenny parts of Cambridge and 

 Huntingdonshire. It has also been found, but more rarely, in other southern 

 counties of England. The caterpillar ordinarily feeds upon such umbelliferous 



