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GENUS. I. BUTTERFLIES. 



SEC. IX. SP. LVII. PURPLE HAIR-STREAK. 



PI. 43- 



Quercus. Linnœus. 



Purple Hair-ftreak. Harris. 



The caterpillars of this butterfly may be taken in plenty by beating the 

 boughs of the oak trees, the latter end of May, when they are full fed, and 

 appear as at fig. i. They prepare for their change to chryfalis by fattening 

 themfelves round the middle, and by the tail, with a (lender web, againft the 

 fmall branches, or twigs, of the tree. In a few hours afterwards the chryfalis 

 appears, as at fig. i. In this ftate they lie till the end of June, or the begin- 

 ning of July, when this brilliant butterfly comes forth, and may be taken off 

 the bramble blofibms, on which it feeds, and frequently fettles. The male fly 

 is feen as flying at fig. 3 : the female at fig. 4; and with the wings ere<5t, (hew- 

 ing the under parts, at fig. 5. 



