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PAPILIO BETUL£. 



Brown Hair Streak Butterfly, 



Lepidoptera. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas clavated at the end : tongue fpiral: wings ere£fc when at 

 reft. Fly by day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings tailed : above brown: beneath yellowifh, with two white 

 ftripes on the pofterior pair. 



Papilio Betulae: alis fubcaudatis fufcis fubtus luteis : pofticis ftrigis 



duabus albis. Lyn. Sfji. Nat. 9.. 220. — Fn. Svs 1070. 

 Hefperia Betulae; Fab. Ent. Syjl. 



Geoff. Inf. 2. 58. 27. 



Albin. Inf. tab. s>.fig. 7. 



Ernjl. Pap. Europ. 1. tab. SB. fig. 7. 



Huff lag. Inf. tab. 12. fig. 1. 



Petiv. Gazoph. tab. W.'fig. 11. 



The male of this fpecies is diftinguifhed by a large fulvous mark 

 Dr fpot on the anterior wings. The larva is very remarkable, being 

 broad and flat. It is found in the months of May and June, on the 

 Alder and Sloe. Changes to Chryfalis the firft week in July. The 

 butterfly appears in Auguft. 



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