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tific will be ever ready to give it the firfl: place as a Biitifli Fapiiidf 

 and to thofe a figure of the Caterpillar and Chryfalis will be an ac- 

 ceptable acquifrtion. It derives the tide of Purple High Flyer, as 

 it very rarely defcends to the ground ; except in fome few inftancesy 

 it has never been taken but in the moft elevated fituations, and even 

 thofe inftances have been after a ftrong wind, or heavy rain: The tops 

 of the loftiefr. foreft trees afford it an afylum, and in the Caterpillar 

 and Chryfalis (late, it is preferved from the wanton cruelty of man, by 

 the almoft inacceffible height of its habitation. They feed on the 

 Sallow, falix caprea, and the Caterpillars are obtained by beating the 

 branches of the tree with a pole twenty or thirty feet in length ; it 

 is then but a neceffary precaution to cover the ground beneath with 

 large fheets to a certain diftance, or the infects which fall, will be loft 

 among the herbage. 



It is in Caterpillar about May and June ; it paffes to the Chryfalis 

 flrate, and in July or Augvji is a Papiiio. 



The great difficulty and trouble to rear the Caterpillars, when found; 

 and greater difficulty to take the Fly, has ftamped a valuable confi- 

 deration on it, and particularly fo when fine, and a high price is but 

 efteemed an adequate compenfation- for it if in good prefervation. 

 The male is fmalier, but more beautiful than the female ; the upper 

 fide of the wings of the female not being ' enriched with that vivid 

 change of purple which the male pofieffes in fuch an eminent degree;- 

 but the underfide of the female is far richer in the various teints of 

 colour than the male : they are both beautifully fpotted, mottled, and 

 waved with brown, black, white, and orange." The Chryfalis is of a 

 very delicate texture, much refembling thin white paper, and is tinged 

 in feveral parts with a very lively purple hue which it borrows from 

 the wings of the enclofed infecf, and bears the characleriftic mark 

 of a Papiiio, by being fufpended from the tail, with the head downward. 



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