144 THE BUTTERFLY VIVARIUM. 



ommatus Alexis is a most pugnacious little fellow, 

 often engaging successfully in combat with the 

 large Red Admiral, or rather "Admirable," for so 

 the popular name of this large and handsome in- 

 sect is spelt by Moses Harris, who was no doubt 

 thoroughly "up" in the popular nomenclature of our 

 native insects at a period when many of the names 

 were first conferred. 



In the next Chapter, I shall give an account of 

 other kinds of British Butterflies that may be 

 reared in the Insect Vivarium, but more especially 

 of those represented in Plate III. 



