The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . ; and the male only in the formof the antennx. We have received this remarkable fpecies fromItaly and Germany. It is figured only by Efper, Phal. 3. tab. 3 ;and is thus defcribed by Linna;us and Fabricius, /3 media : fingu-laris ob foeminam mari fimillrmam. The third,
The natural history of British insects : explaining them in their several states, with the periods of their transformations, their food, oeconomy, &ctogether with the history of such minute insects as require investigation by the microscope : the whole illustrated by coloured figures, designed and executed from living specimens . ; and the male only in the formof the antennx. We have received this remarkable fpecies fromItaly and Germany. It is figured only by Efper, Phal. 3. tab. 3 ;and is thus defcribed by Linna;us and Fabricius, /3 media : fingu-laris ob foeminam mari fimillrmam. The third, P, Pavonia major,can by no means be confounded with the preceding : our fpecimen ofit is fix inches in breadth, and is alfo very bulky r it is found in thePays de vaud. Roefcl has given a figure of both fexes with the larvaand pupa. The winged Infect is of a dingy brown, the marksfomewhat fimilar to thofe of the common kind. The larva is large,v/ith the head fmali in proportion. The whale is of a citron green, furnilhed PLATE CCLIII. $ furnifhed with elevated tubercles, whofe fummits diverge into rayslike a ftar, and are of an azure blue colour : it is alfo befet with anumber of long filaments ot threads, each of which terminate in aJittle capitulum fimilar to the antenna of a Butterfly. A3 PLATE ::::rrY .?^^. in A USA. [ 7 ] PLATE CCLIV. F I G. I. I. PAPILIO PANISCUS. GENEFilC CHARACTER. Antennas clubbed at the ends. Wings in general ere6l when atreft. Fly by day. SPECIFIC CHARACTER AND SYNONYMS,Wings entire, divaricated ; dark brown with fulvous fpots. Hesperia Paniscus : alls integerrimis divaricatis : pofticis utrin-que fufcis fulvo maculatis. Fab. Ent. Syji. T.^^p. 242. Papilio Brontes. Wien. 160. 6. Papilio Palemon. Palh Itln. i. Ap-p. Nr. 63. ^ Papilio Silvius. Efp. pap. tab. So. Jig. P. Panifcus is defcribed by Fabricius as a native of Germany, andhas been lately added to the lift of Britifti Papiliones. In this countryit feems a very local fpecies.
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