. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... on the i8th. They were of a yellowifli gray colour,with black heads; and their bodies were covered with fine fhort hairs. On the27th, they changed their Ikins for the firft time, and then acquired fpines, befetwith long hairs: the colour of the caterpillar was now nearly black, with a lightftripe on the back. On the yth of July they changed their fkins a fecond time,on the 15th a third time, and on the 24th or 25th the fourth and laft fp
. The papilios of Great Britain : systematically arranged, accurately engraved, and painted from nature with the natural history of each species .... on the i8th. They were of a yellowifli gray colour,with black heads; and their bodies were covered with fine fhort hairs. On the27th, they changed their Ikins for the firft time, and then acquired fpines, befetwith long hairs: the colour of the caterpillar was now nearly black, with a lightftripe on the back. On the yth of July they changed their fkins a fecond time,on the 15th a third time, and on the 24th or 25th the fourth and laft fpines, which after the firft change appeared with fine and long hairs, ac-quired fliort ftiff oaes after the laft change. In a few days after the fourthchancre, the caterpillars had attained their full growth: fee %. i. From thechry-falis, fig. 2. in the courfe of a few days I obtained the butterfly, fig. ^. The difi^erence between the two fexes in this butterfly is fcarcely diftinguifh-able, except by the greater thicknefs of the body of the female. The under wing of this butterfly is beautifully marked with oblong filveiyfpots, fig. 4- ?i?.
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