. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... s de cette feftion portent le nom de raie capillaire par rapport ;iune raie ctroite, de couleur blanche, qui traverfe les ailes en I. Z ( 90 ) GENUS. I. BUTTERFLIES. SEC. IX. SP. LVII. PURPLE HAIR-STREAK. PL 43. Quercus. Limaus. Purple Hair-ftreak. Harris. The caterpillars of this butterfly may be taken in plenty by beating theboughs of the oak trees, the latter end of May, when they are full fed, andappear as at fig. i. They prepare
. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... s de cette feftion portent le nom de raie capillaire par rapport ;iune raie ctroite, de couleur blanche, qui traverfe les ailes en I. Z ( 90 ) GENUS. I. BUTTERFLIES. SEC. IX. SP. LVII. PURPLE HAIR-STREAK. PL 43. Quercus. Limaus. Purple Hair-ftreak. Harris. The caterpillars of this butterfly may be taken in plenty by beating theboughs of the oak trees, the latter end of May, when they are full fed, andappear as at fig. i. They prepare for their change to chryfalis by fafleningthemfelves round the middle, and by the tail, with a flender web, againft thefmall branches, or twigs, of the tree. In a few hours afterwards the , as at fig. 2. In this ftate they lie till the end of June, or the begin-ning of July, when this brilliant butterfly comes forth, and may be taken offthe bramble bloflToms, on which it feeds, and frequently fettles. The male flyis feen as flying at fig. 3 : the female at fig. 4; and with the wings eredt, (hew-ing the under parts, at fig.
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