THE

natural history

OF

BRITISH INSECTS.

P LATE XXXVII.

P A P I L I O IRIS,

Emperor of the Woods, or pItrple Hjqh Flyer,Lepidopterai

GENERIC CHARACTER.

Antenna clavated. Wings when at rest, erect. Fly by day,

SPECIFIC CllARACfER.

Wings indented; above, purple; darker round the Edges, with^ e Ven distinct white Spots on the first Wings; on the second, an ir~se gular broad white-Stripe, and a red Eye, Beneath, blaek, brown,a Rd white.

Linn. S.yjl . Nat, p. 4^6. P. ex,

The Papilio Iris is esteemed among the beautiful, and placed Withwe rare of the Englijh Lepidoptera » The cursory reader may notf er ceive that superiority, particularly as many of the minute Insects '^finitely excel in real beauty and richness of colouring; but the feien-

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