. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... number of thefe infects were flying and foaring about for the fpace of twelve or fourteendays ; and then, as if one confent, they migrated from us, and were no more feen. The female, fig. 4, difiirs from the male only in fize, being much the largeft. Thecaterpillars, fig. i, and chryfalis, fig. 2, are figured from Rcefel; and the following ishis account of their breeding : When the caterpillars are near the lime of their transfor-mation, t
. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... number of thefe infects were flying and foaring about for the fpace of twelve or fourteendays ; and then, as if one confent, they migrated from us, and were no more feen. The female, fig. 4, difiirs from the male only in fize, being much the largeft. Thecaterpillars, fig. i, and chryfalis, fig. 2, are figured from Rcefel; and the following ishis account of their breeding : When the caterpillars are near the lime of their transfor-mation, tlicy retire to a place of flieltcr, there fixing their hind legs by a glutinous web,with their heads downwards, and bent towards tlie belly, fig. 3. In a days timethe Qcin flips ofi^, and the chryfalis appears as reprefented, fig. 2. They hang in thisftate about fourteen days, and then the butterflies are produced. The females lay tlieireggs on the branches of willow trees, in the early part of the funimer; and the youngcaterpillars come forth in three weeks: but if the eggs be laid in the autumn, they remainin that ftatc the whole winter. J-. TirzeufiTi a^i. fTr ja,^r ( 7 ) DIVISION I. MOUCHES PORTE-PLUMES. LEPIDOPTERES DE LINN^ I. MOUCHES DE JOUR. Les ailes font au nombre de quatre, et garnies de petites plumes: le corps eft velu ; latrompe, ou probofcide, eft longue, et roulee en forme de fpirale, quand elle neft point enadlion. GENRE I. PAPILLONS. PAPILLONS DE LINN^US. lis ont des antennes a mafle: quatre ailes; perpendiculaires au plan de pofition dans Ietatde repos: les chenilles, ou larves, ont fix grifFes, huit pattes, et deux crochets. SECTION I. PAPILLONS AUX AILES DENTELEES. Les larves font heriffies depuies et de poils : elles fe fufpendent par la queue quand ellesfe changent en chryfalide ou en nymphe. ESPECE I. LE PAPILLON DU SAULE. PI. i. Antiopa. Beauty. Harris. Trois de ces fuperbes et tares infectes furent pris en 1748, pres de Camb
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