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PapiUo praecox fulphurea five flavo viridis, fingulis alls macula fer* 

 ruginea notatis. — Raj. Inf. 112. 4. 

 iS«/z. Inf. tab. 13. ySg". 84, 

 Roef. Inf. 3. tab. 46. fig. 1.2.3. 



4. /*£. 26. fig. 1.5. 



Degeer Inf. I. ta£. 15. 7%. 1. 10. 

 £//>. Pap. 1. /«$. 4. yfg-. 4. 

 Schtfff. Elem. tab. 94. _/?£■. 7. 

 Icon. tab. 35. fig. 1,3, 



The Brimftone Butterfly is common in many places in the month 

 of June in the Fly ftate. In the Caterpillar ftate it is feldom 

 taken, and when in chryfalis it is generally concealed among the 

 herbage, where it is almoft impoffible to be difcovered. In this 

 ilate, like all other fpecies of the Butterfly tribe, it is fufpended by 

 the tail, but has fuch mufcular ftrength, that if touched it can throw 

 itfelf upright immediately, in the fame manner as the Chryfalis of 

 Phalasna pentadaclyla. It feeds chiefly on buck-thorn, whence it has 

 received the fpecific name Rhamni, 



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