In the family of _Nymphalidæ_, we will first mention the White Admiral (Fig. 166). The upper side of its wings is of a dark brown, almost black, traversed in the middle by a white band divided into spots very close to each other. The lower part of the wings is ferruginous, with a band and spots of white, as on the upper, besides which it has a double hinder transverse row of black dots. These dots are followed on the hind wings by some white spots, and the whole of the inner margin is of a glossy ashy blue, with the base spotted with black. This butterfly is not rare in the month of July in woods in the south of England, where it flies round and settles upon the branches of the underwood. The caterpillar is of a delicate green, with a lateral white stripe, and rather bristly. It feeds on honeysuckle. The pupa is angular, of greenish colour, with golden spots. The _Limenitis camilla_ (Fig. 167), of which the black on the wings is shot with blue, is not found in England. In the month of July the _Apatura ilia_ (Fig. 168) and the Purple Emperor (_Apatura iris_), sylvan insects of strong flight, whose wings are beautifully shot with violet blue when examined in certain lights--the latter resembling _Ilia_, but wanting the eye-like spots on the front wings--are met with. _Iris_ only is found in this country. Both species occur in the environs of Paris. [Illustration: Fig. 168.--Apatura ilia.] The _Charaxes jasius_ (Fig. 169), which is found along the whole of the Mediterranean coast, has its lower wings terminated in two points, whence the peasants call this butterfly the _Pacha with two tails_. The upper part of its wings is of a brown colour of changing hues. The hind margin of the fore wings has along it a tawny band with a fine black line running round. The hind wings have their hinder margin black, and garnished with a little white fringe. The two tails are black, and the groove of the inner margin is of an ashy grey. The underneath of the wings is ferruginous, with spots of an olive brown set in a framework of white towards the base. The caterpillar is green, and flat like a slug, with four yellow horns bordered with red (Fig. 170). It lives on the arbutus, a shrub common enough on the hills and mountains of the coast of the Mediterranean. [Illustration: Fig. 169.--Charaxes jasius.] [Illustration: Fig. 170.--Larva of Charaxes jasius about to change to a pupa.] [Illustration: Fig. 171.--Erebia Euryale.] To the family of the _Satyridi_ belongs the _Erebia Euryale_ (Fig. 171), which is found in the month of July in sub-alpine regions; the _Chionobas aello_ (Fig. 172), which is found in the Alps of Switzerland, of the Tyrol, and of Savoy, and which is common enough, in the month of July, on the summit of Montanvers, near the _mer de glace_; the _Satyrus janira_, or Meadow Brown (Fig. 173), which is very common, in the months of June and July, in woods and fields. [Illustration: Fig. 172.--Chionobas aello.]