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CHARAXES JASIUS. 
singularly armed with four vertical yellow horns 
tipped with red, of which the two intermediate are 
the longest. A yellow line passes along each side of 
the body in the region of the stigmata, and the back < 
is marked with four' indistinct orange spots. The' 
true feet are black, the membranous ones green. It 
feeds on the leaves of the strawberry tree, and never 
eats except during the night. Its habits are very 
lethargic. During day-light it remains fixed and 
motionless on its favourite plant, which it resembles 
in colour, and thus escapes observation. The chry- 
salis is smooth, thick, carinated, and of a coriaceous 
texture, the colour pale green. Two broods or flights 
of the perfect insect are produced each year, the 
first in June, the second in September. The cater- 
pillars of the autumnal brood survive the winter, and 
are not transformed into chrysalids till the ensuing 
May. The perfect insects are then produced in 
about fifteen days. These speedily deposit their 
eggs, which aTe hatched in June, and after three 
months occupied in the usual transformations, the 
second flight appears in September, and continues 
the race in the manner above mentioned. In many 
parts of France the butterfly is named the Pacha 
with two Tails * " 
Wilson’s Illust. of Zoology, fol. 27. 
