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the border, and end in a magnificent eye of a reddish colour, bor- 
dered with blue. 
The caterpillar of this species is large, smooth, and of a beau- 
tiful light green, with a transverse black band on each ring. 
These bands are sprinkled with orange spots. It lives on the 
fennel, carrot, and other Umbelliferee. If teased it thrusts from 
the first ring after the head a fleshy orang" -coloured ten- 
tacle. The chrysalis attached to a stalk of grass is sometimes 
light green, sometimes greyish. 
In the low Alps, on the plains near the envions of Digne and 
Barcelonette, is found in the months of May ant July the Papilio 
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Fig. 142.—The scarce Swallow-tailed Buttertly (Papilio podalirius ). 
alexanor (Fig. 141), and in Corsica and Sardinia is found the Papilio 
hospiton, a rare species, nearly related to our Swallow-tailed 
butterfly, but which. we will here content ourselves with men- 
tioning. 
The Papilio podalirius (Fig. 142) is in form very analogous to 
Papilio machaon. It is of a rather pale yellow colour, marked 
with black as if singed. The lower wings have tails longer and | 
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