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NATURAL HISTORY: 
OF 
B.R SES &Hel NSE OPS: 
Pen aern ot xeevir 
PAPILIO IRIS, 
Empéror of raz Woops, or purrie Hicu Fryer; 
LEpPIpoPrERA: 
GENERIC CHARACTER: 
Papilio , 
Antenne clavated. Wings when at reft, erect, F ly by day. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER: 
Wings indented; above, purple; darker round the Edges, with 
feven diftinét white Spots on the firft Wings ; on the fecond, an ire 
régular broad white Stripe, and a red Eye. Beneath, black, brown, 
and white. 
Linn. Syft. Nat. p. 476; P. ex; 
The Papilio Iris is efteemed among the beautiful, and placed with 
the rare of the Englih Lepidoptera. The curfory reader may not 
perceive that fuperiority, particularly as many of the minute InfeGts 
infinitely excel in real beauty and richnefs of colouring; but the {cien- 
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