PURPLE EMPEROR. 
TThIS beautiful butterfly, called in England 
the Purple Emperor, is the Iris, Nymphales,, 
of Linnsus. 
The striking difference between the upper 
and under sides, renders it necessary to pre- 
zent both, at a single view, on the same 
plate. 
For our description, we cannot do better.^ 
than to adopt that of the late ingenious T\Ir„ 
Moses Flarris, long Secretary to the Aureliaii 
Society, under the patronage of the famous 
Earl of Bute. 
The antennce arc blaclc, having a little 
brov/n speck on the extremity of each. The 
head, thorax, and abdomen, are brown, and 
covered with fine hair of a dark but glossy 
afli-colour. The superior and inferior vs iogs^ 
are very dark near the margins or fan-edges ; 
but all the other parts are changeable, accorvh 
