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PLATE CCCCXXXVII. 



PAPILIO PRUNI. 



BLACK HAIR-STREAK BUTTERFLY. 

 GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennas terminating in a club : wings ©refit when at reft. Fly by 



day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings flightly tailed : above brown with a red fpot at the tip of 

 the lower -ones : on the posterior pair beneath a fulvous marginal band 

 dotted with black, 



Papilio Pruni ; alio fubcaudatis fupra fufcis : pofterioribus fubtui 

 fafcia marginali fulva nigra punctata. Linn. Fn. 

 Suec. 1071.— GroeJ. Linn. Syji. Nat, 2341. 



Hesperia Pruni. Fab. EnU Syji. S. 377. 70, 



The larva of this fpecies h of a green colour with a pale lateral 

 line ; the pupa brown with the head white. 



This kind is found in the Wva ftate on the cherry, bullace, and 

 other trees of the Prunus genus, whence its name. It appears on the 

 wing in July, and is not common. ] 



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