LLMENITIS. 
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white cliscoiclal spot and a row of three or four near the apex. 
Hind wings with a central white hand, narrow in the male, hut 
broad and distinct in the female. All the wings have the hind 
margin tinged with green, and with a row of orange lunules, com- 
plete on the hind wings, but on the fore wings interrupted towards 
the anal angle. Under side orange, with the spots and stripes 
greenish ; hind wings with a row of blackish spots parallel to the 
hind margin, and with the inner margins greenish grey. 
Times of Appearance. — June and July. 
Habitat. — Central Europe (excepting Great Britain and 
Holland), also the Southern parts of Scandanavia and Finland. 
PI. XXXVII., 1. 
Larva. — Green, mixed with reddish brown and yellowish 
white, with two rows of fleshy elevations covered with bristles. 
Pupa. — Dirty white ; thorax with a dark brown dorsal patch ; 
wing-cases dark brown. 
The Larva feeds on Populus alha and tremula, in May. It 
appears first in the autumn, and then liybernates between dead 
leaves. 
In its habits this species very much resembles Apatura Iris, 
frequenting the higher branches of tall trees, and occasionally 
descending on moist ground or attracted by carrion, &c. It is 
said to be much niore common in some seasons than in others. 
VARIETY. 
a. Tremulae, Esp. 114, 3, 4. This is a form of the male, in 
which nearly all the white markings are absent, sometimes even 
the apical spots scarcely appearing at all. This aberrant form may 
be found at the same time and in the same localities as the type. 
PL XXXVII., 2. 
2. — L. Camilla, Schiff. S. V. p. 182 ; Hiib. 106-7 ; Godt. i. 6, 3. 
Lucilla, Esp. 38, 2 ; Bkh. i. 25. 
Expands from 1’50 to 2' 25 in. The ground colour of all the 
wings is bluish black, and all have a row of blue-black or purple 
dots running parallel to the hind margin. Fore wings with a 
white spot near the apex, and with a distinct white discoidal spot ; 
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