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GENUS I. BUTTERFLIES. 



SEC. I. SP. VII. WHITE ADMIRABLE. 

 PL 8. 



Camilla. Lirniœus. 



White Admirable. Harris. 



This infeft appears on the wing about the twenty-fourth of June, and is not 

 uncommon. 1 1 frequents the fouth fides of woods and lanes near them; and 

 may be readily taken as it is feeding on the various flowers then in bloom, 

 before nine o'clock in the morning; after which time, as the fun grows hot, it 

 fports and flies about with great fwiftnefs, frequently fettling on the tops and 

 fides of hicm trees. It is very extraordinary, that, though this fly is an inha- 

 bitant of almoft every patch of wood in England, neither the greateft pains taken, 

 nor accident, have yet difcovered the caterpillar. A friend of mine once found 

 two chryfalides, fufpended by the tail on different parts of a low honey- 

 fuckle bum, in a retired part of a wood; both of which produced fine fpeci- 

 mens of this butterfly the latter end of June. The chryfalis, as he defcribed 

 it, was hog-backed, with the refemblance of two rows of knobs on the back, 

 and of a reddifh brown colour. If I might venture to conjecture, the caterpil- 

 lars are well grown in the autumn, as we fee is the cafe with others in this fec- 

 tion ; the flies of which make their firft appearance about the fame time. 

 When the feverity of the winter approaches, they hide themfelves under fome 

 warm cover, till the benign influence of the fun in the fpring warms the earth, 

 and reftores vigour to the almoft exhaufted creation ; they then feed, as I fup- 

 pofe, on the green leaves of the honey fucklc, and are at their full growth 

 about the end of May. The male is fig. i. The female differs from it only 

 in fize, being the largeft : the under part is fig. 2. 



