LIMENITIS—NF.PTIS. 
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running parallel to the hind margin ; the base of the wings is 
greenish, with a pearly lustre and with some black spots which are 
not found in the last. Head, thorax and abdomen brownish black 
above, greenish white beneath. Antennae black above, with the 
extreme tips light brown, beneath they are fulvous. PI. XXXVIII., 1. 
Time of Appearance. ^ — June and July. 
Habitat. — Woods in Central Europe, and in Spain, Britain, 
and South Russia. 
Larva. — ^Head pinkish brown, darker laterally. Body almost 
cylindrical, but with the intersegmental spaces strongly marked ; 
the dorsal surface is rough and tuberculated, with small branched 
spines ; the colour on the back is dark green, the sides being paler 
and the tubercles yellow. The spiracles are white, and below them 
is a narrow white lateral stripe. The spines are pink at the tip 
and brown at the base ; their bristles are black. The ventral 
surface is apple-green, the claspers being paler and the legs 
brownish green. (The above description is condensed from that 
given in Newman’s ‘ British Butterflies ’). 
Pupa brown, with the wing-cases green ; the head and ventral 
surface are decorated with metallic spots. 
Time of Appearance : — ^The larva is hatched about the begin- 
ning of August, hybernating and appearing again in April, becoming 
full fed and pupating at the beginning of June. It feeds on 
Lonicera. 
Obs. — Aberrations of this and of the preceding species occur, 
in which the white markings are either wholly or partially absent 
from the upper surface, thus corresponding to the var. lole of 
Apatura Iris. Such a variety of L. Camilla is figured by Milliere 
(Ic. 1859, pi. 4, 1), and named by him Pythoiiissa. The black form 
of L. Sijhilla is given by Htibner (Btr. ii. 3, 1, h.) ; also in Newman’s 
‘ British Butterflies.’ Specimens of this may be seen in almost 
every good collection of British Lepidoptera. 
Genus 2. — NEPTIS, Fab. 111. Mag. vi. p. 282 (1807) ; Westwood, 
Gen. Diurn. Lep. p. 270 (1850). 
Characters. — Larva cylindrical with spiny excrescences. 
Pupa with a few angular projections. 
