

LEPIDOPTERA. 195 
rather bristly. It feeds on honeysuckle. The pupa is angular, of 
greenish colour with golden spots. 
The Limenitis camilla (Fig. 167), of which the black on the 
wings is shot with blue, is not found in England. 
In the month of July, the Apatura tha (Fig. 168), and the Pur- 
ple Emperor (Apatura iris), sylvan insects of strong flight, whose 
‘wings are beautifully shot with violet blue when examined 
in certain lights,—the latter resembling Jia, but wanting the eye- 
like spots on the front wings,—are met with. Jris only 1s 
found in this country. Both species occur in the environs of 
Paris. 
The Charaxes iasius (Fig. 169), which is found along the whole 
















































































Fig. 168. —Apatura ilia. 
of the Mediterranean coast, has its lower wings terminated in two 
points, whence the peasants call this butterfly the Pacha nith tro 
tails. The upper part of its wings is of a brown colour of changing 
hues. The hind margin of the fore wings has along it a tawny 
band with a fine black line running round. The hind wings have 
their hinder margin black, and garnished with a little white 
fringe. The two tails are black and the groove of the inner 
margin is of an ashy grey. The underneath of the wings is 
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