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DIVISION Ï. FEATHERED FLIES, 



LEPIDOPTERA OF LINN^US. 

 ORDER I. FLIES OF THE DAY. 



Wings four, covered with minute feathers : body hairy: tongue, or probofcis, long, 

 and coiled up like a watch fpring when not feeding. 



GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 

 PAPILIOS OF LINN^US. 

 Antennae, knobbed : wings four; when at reft, ereft : the caterpillars, or larva, have fix 

 claws, eight feet, and two holders. 



SECTION I. SCALLOP WINGED. 



The Larva; fpincd and hairy: they fufpend fhemfelves by the tail when changing to 

 chryfalis or pupa. 



SPECIES I. WILLOW BUTTERFLY. PI. i. 



Antiopa. Linnaus. 

 Camberwell Beauty. Harris. 

 Three of thefe beautiful and rare infects were taken in the year 1748, near Camberwell 

 in Surry ; from which time, until the year 1 789, we have no account of any being feen in 

 England. The middle of Auguft, 1789, I was furprifed with the fight of two of thefe 

 elegant flies, near Feverfham in Kent ; one of which I thought it great good fortune to 

 take ; but in the courfe of that week I was more agreeably furprifed with feeing and tak- 

 ing numbers of them, in the moft perfect condition. One of my fons found an old decoy 

 pond, of large extent, furroundeel with willow and fallow trees, and a great number of thefe 

 butterflies flying about, and at reft on the trees, many of which appearing to be juft out of 

 the chryfalis, left no room to doubt, that this was a place where they bred. In March, 1 790, 

 a number of thefe infects were flying and foaring about for the fpace of twelve or fourteen 

 days ; and then, as if with one confent, they migrated from us, and were no more feen. 



The iemale, fig. 4, differs from the male only in fr/.e, being much the largeft. The 

 caterpillars, fig. 1, and chryfalis, fig. 2, are figured from Roefel ; and the following is 

 his account of their breeding : " When the caterpillars are near the time of their transfor- 

 mation, they retire to a place of fhelter, there fixing their hind legs by a glutinous web, 

 with their heads downwards, and bent towards the belly, fig. 3. In a dav's time 

 the fkin flips off, and the chryfalis appears as reprefented, fig. 2. They hang in this 

 ftate about fourteen days, and then the butterflies are produced. The females lay their 

 eggs on the branches of willow trees, in the early part of the fummer; and the young 

 catei pillars come forth in three weeks: but if the eggs be laid in the autumn, they remain 

 in that ftate the whole winter." 



