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PLATE XXVI.
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WHITE ADMIRAL.
Limenitis Camilla, LEACH. CURTIS. DUNCAN.
HUBNER. WESTWOOD.
Papilio Camilla, LINNAEUS. HAWORTH.
LEWIN. DONOVAN. HARRIS.
sibilla, FABRICIUS. STUART.
THIS most elegant and graceful species is of decidedly local
distribution, though in several places it occurs in tolerable
plenty—"the Happy hunting grounds" of the Entomologist. It
is found in shady places in the retired depths of woods, where
the sun gleams through at intervals. It is fond of alighting
on the bramble blossom, the nectar of which it sips. R. B.
Postans, Esq. informs me that it is taken in the greatest
abundance in Hartley Wood, near St. Osyth, Essex; and
also, though more sparingly, near Colchester and Dedham, in
the same county. It is also found near Rye, Sussex; in Coombe
Wood, near London; in a wood near Parley Heath, and the
New Forest, Hampshire; near Peterborough, Northampton, and
I believe at or near Lilford, in the same county; Ipswich, Suf­
folk; Enborne Copse, near Newbury, Berkshire; in Birch Wood,
Kent* abundantly in woods near Winchester; near Finchley,
Middlesex • and one specimen of late years in the Isle of Wight,
where M. A. Bromfield, Esq. says that it used to be common
in the woods near Ryde.
This Butterfly appears the second week in July.
The caterpillar feeds on the honeysuckle.
The expanse of the wings is from tw r o inches and a quarter
to two inches and a half; the upper surface of the fore wings
is dull brownish black, with a curved band of interrupted