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NATURAL HISTORY 



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BRITISH INSECTS 



PLATE XXXVII. 



PAPILIO IRIS. 

 Emperor of the Woods, or pUrple High FlYer. 

 Lepidoptera* 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Papilla, 



Antennae clavated. Wings when at reft, erect. Fly by day* 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Wings indented ; above, purple ; darker round the Edges, with 

 feven diftin£t white Spots on the firft Wings ; on the fecond, an ir- 

 regular broad white Stripe, and a red Eye* Beneath, black, brown, 



and white. 



Linn. SyJI. Nat, p. 476. P. ex. 



The Papilio Iris is efteemed among the beautiful, and placed with 

 the rare of the EngUJh Lepidoptera. The curfory reader may not 

 perceive that fuperiority, particularly as many of the minute Infefts 

 infinitely excel in real beauty and richnefs of colouring; but the fcien- 



B z tific 



