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EMPEROR OF MOROCCO.
PLATE XXXVI.
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PURPLE EMPEROR.
Apatura iris, OCHSENHEIMEB. LEACH.
" STEPHENS. CURTIS. DUNCAN.
Boxocopa iris, HUBNEE.
Papilio iris, LTNNJEUS. LEWIN. WILKES.
" " HAWORTH. DONOVAN. HARRIS.
THE 19th. of July, 1852, must ever be the most memorable
one, the events of which are recorded in my Entomological diary,
for on that day did I first see the Emperor on his throne—
the monarch of the forest clothed in his imperial purple,
'Mille trahens varios adverso sole colores'—
One! two!! three!!! "Allied Sovereigns!" Thanks to the
obliging hospitality of the Rev. William Bree, the curate of
Polebrook, to whom I had no introduction but that which
the freemasonry of Entomology supplies to its worthy brother­
hood, I had the happiness of beholding His Majesty, or to
speak more correctly, Their Majesties, though, as is only
proper, at a most respectful distance; they at the "top of the
tree," and I on the humble ground. The next day, in the
same wood, at Ashton Wold, near Oundle, Northamptonshire,
durino* my absence in successful search of the Large Blue, of
which more anon, Mr. Bree most cleverly captured one, by
actin 0- on the principle—an invaluable one, as I have always
found it, long before its enunciation by the late Sir Robert
Peel to the students of the University of Glasgow, at his
installation as Rector, in the best speech, by the way, if I