THE 
PEACOCK BUTTERFLY. 
Generic Character. 
Antenna commonly thickening towards the end 
into a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at reft) meeting upwards. (Flight 
diurnal.) 
Specific Character , &c. 
Orange-brown BUTTERFLY, with angular, 
dentated wings, fpotted with black; with a 
large blue-lhaded eye on each wing. 
Alb. inf. pi. 3. 
Reaum. inf. 1. t. 25. fig. 1. 2. 
Wilk. pap. 55. pi. 3. a. 2. 
Harr, aurel. pi. 8. f k. i. 
The caterpillar or larva of this moil beautiful 
butterfly feeds on nettles, and commonly changes 
into a chryfalis in July; hanging by the tail, as 
exprefled in the plate. The Fly appears in the 
beginning of Auguft. 
