
| THE 
GREAT TORTOISE-SHELL 
BUTTERFLY, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Antenne thickening towards the end, and ge- 
nerally terminating in a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at rest) meeting upwards, Flight 
diurnal, 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, Se 
- Butterfly with denticulated orange-coloured 
_ wings; the upper pair marked with three 
large and four small black spots. | 
Great Tortoise-sheil Butterfly. 
is Alb. ins. pl. 55. 
Roes. 1. pl. 2. 
 Mertan ins. Eur. ik 52. 

The carerpillae if this insect feeds principally on the 
leaves of elm and willow, and changes to a chrysalis . 
in the month of June, from which in July proceeds 
the Gucterfs 



