The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.Wilkes, Benjamin
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The English moths and butterflies : $b Together with the plants, flowers, and fruits whereon they feed, and are usually found.
Wilkes, Benjamin
Butterflies -- Great Britain
_Figure_ 1. The Bent Grass. 2. Brown Millet-Grass. 3. Yellow Ladies
Bedstraw. 4. The Great Fox-tail Grass.
1. _Gramen segetum, panicula speciosa._ Park. 2. _Gramen miliaceum
majus panicula spadicea._ Petiv. 3. _Gallium luteum_, C. B. 4.
_Gramen Alopecuroides majus._ Ger.
L. 3. CH. 1. II. CL. 2. S. _b._ 2.
The MEADOW BROWN-BUTTERFLY. The _Caterpillar_ was found by Mr.
_Dandridge_ on the common Grass, with which he fed it ’till the 24th
of _May_, when it fastened itself up by the Tail, and changed into a
short thick green _Chrysalis_ streaked with black, and on the 11th
of _June_ came out the _Butterfly_, which is one of the most common
sorts the Fields afford, and yet the _Caterpillar_ is rarely found.
See _Albin_, P. 53.
The Water Elder.
_Opulus_ Ruellii. _Instit._ R. Herb.
L. 3. CH. 1. III. CL. 2. S. _b._ 3.
The GREAT ARGUS-BUTTERFLY breeds twice a Year: The first Time is
in _May_, the second in _July_. _Merian_ says, the _Caterpillar_
feeds on _Grass_, and that it changes to a small green _Chrysalis_,
from which proceeds this elegant _Fly_, adorned with brown and
black Spots, having two white Horns spotted with black, and Eyes
of a beautiful Colour. This _Butterfly_ is very common; its Flight
is not swift: It delights to settle on dry Banks and Walls, and in
Path-Ways, and is not difficult to take. Its _Caterpillar_ is seldom
found.
See _Merian_, Vol. 2. Chap. 4.
The Passion-Flower.
_Granadilla Pentaphyllos Flore cæruleo magno._ Boerh.
L. 3. CH. 1. IV. CL. 2. S. _b._ 4.
The WOOD ARGUS-BUTTERFLY. This also breeds twice a Year: The first
Brood appears at the Beginning of _May_, the second at the Beginning
of _July_. It flies slowly, and is to be taken in Woods, green Lanes,
_&c._ _Reaumur_ informs us, that the _Caterpillar_ feeds on _Grass_;
that it changed to a _Chrysalis_ on the 19th of _June_, and that ten
Days after the _Fly_ was bred.
See _Reaumur_, Plate 27. Pag. 431.
The Spanish Broom.
_Genista Iuncea_, J. B.
SECT. _c._
_CATERPILLARS having little HAIR, producing BUTTERFLIES, whose Head
and Body are much larger (for their Size) than any other BUTTERFLIES:
Of which there are several belonging to this Section, whose
~Caterpillars~ have not as yet been discovered._
L. 3. CH. 1. I. CL. 2. S. _c._ 1.
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