APOLLO BUTTERFLY,. 
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of trie upper wings bearing five pretty large black 
spots, and each of the hinder ones two large round 
crimson spots, with a white pupil, surrounded exter- 
nally by a black circle. The extremity of the wings is 
naked and transparent, appearingas if varnished, pretty 
thickly sprinkled with minute black dots, which form 
a faint flexuose cross band at some distance from 
the margin, and parallel with it. The base and an- 
terior edge of the primary wings are covered with 
black dots ; the abdominal margin of the hinder pair 
with similar points and long whitish hairs, as far as 
the extremity of the abdomen, beyond which there 
is a curved patch of black. The markings on the 
under side nearly correspond to those just described : 
some of the black spots on the upper wings, how- 
ever, have occasionally a red mark in the centre ; 
and on the hinder pair there are four red spots, bor- 
dered with black, forming a kind of cross-band near 
the base, while the anal black patch often has a red 
streak in the middle. The body is black, with whit- 
ish hairs on the abdomen, and reddish ones on the 
front of the thorax : the antennae white, with a black 
knob. 
The caterpillar is of a beautiful velvet-black co- 
lour, with two rows of deep orange spots on each 
side, one near the back, the other towards the belly : 
the incisures are glossed with blue, and the whole 
body is clothed with short black hairs. It feeds on 
the Orpine ( Sedum telephium J, and various kinds 
of Saxifrage, particularly Saxifraga yyramidalis. 
