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PLATE CCCCLX. 



PAPILIO QUERCUS. 



PURPLE HAIR-STREAK BUTTERFLY, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Antennae terminating in a club : wings erecl; when at reft : fiy by 

 day. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



SYNONYMS. 



Wings flightly tailed ; blue above, beneath cinereous with a white 

 ftreak, and double fulvous dot in the anal angle. 



Papilio Quercus : alis fubcaudatis caerulefcentibus, fubtus cine- 



reis : ftriga alba pun6toque ani gemino fulvo. Linn. 



Fn. Suec. 1072. — Mus. Lud. Ulr. 3U.—GmeL 



Linn. Syji. Nat. I p. 2341. 

 Hesperia Quercus. Fabr. fp. inf. 2. p. US. n. 527- — Mant, 



inf. 2. p. 69. n. 65Q.—Ent. Syji. 3. 278. 72. 



Efper Schmet. t, 19. f. 2. c, a. 



Albin Inf. t. 52. b. c. 



Admiral Inf. t. 17. 



Roern. Gen. t. 18. /. 10. 



The Purple Hair Streak feeds on the Oak. The larva is fat, of a 

 pale or rofy red colour, and marked with lines of green dots ; the 

 pupa gloffy, and ferruginous, with three dorfal lines of brown 



I dots. 



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