THE WHITE ADMIRAL 
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On the under side of the fore wing the markings are similar 
to the upper side, but there is an additional square white 
spot between the two black markings in the discoidal cell. 
The ground colour is deep fulvous clouded with black and 
brown, and there is a marginal border of lilac-grey. Between 
the second and third median nervures is a large ocellus, 
composed of a lilac-centred black spot, surrounded by an 
orange-fulvous band. 
The hind wing is light olive-brown, blending into lilac-grey 
on the outer margin ; the white band is bordered on each 
side by deep fulvous, forming a broad cloud along the outer 
edge and a fine inner edging. 
Life of Imago. From four to five weeks. 
Aberration. The white bands and spots are frequently of 
a delicate ochreous tinge in the female, and the ground colour 
varies considerably in depth. Striking aberration is confined 
to the development of the markings ; these are sometimes 
much reduced in size, or in number ; in extreme forms all 
the markings are entirely missing on the upper side and 
almost so on the under side. This very rare form is known as 
ab. iole. 
Genus LIMENITIS, Fabricius , 1807 
THE WHITE ADMIRAL 
Limenitis Camilla (Linn., 1764) = sibylla. 
(Plate XVI, facing page 189) 
This elegant butterfly, the White Admiral, known to the 
older entomologists as the “ White Admirable/ 1 is exclusively 
a woodland species. 
About a century ago it was a fairly common butterfly in 
many woods round London and in most of the woodlands 
in the southern half of England, but during the middle of 
last century it became less numerous and finally disappeared 
from many of its haunts, and until a few years ago it was 
confined to a few limited localities, chiefly in Suffolk, Essex, 
