PA P I L I O G I L I P P U S .
C H E S N U T - C O L O U R E D B U T T E R F L Y .
A S C L E P IA S AM P L E X / C A U L IS.
BR OA D W AV ED - L E A V E D SW A L L OW -W O R T .
P. D. alis integemmis concoloribus fulvis albo maculatis: margine atro puntftis albis.
Papilio Gilippus. Pair. Eniom: emend. V. 4. 52. Cram. Pap. t. 26. f . C. D.
A f t e r feeding on th e plant here reprefented, the caterpillar changed to a chryfalis
Ju n e 18th, and th e butterfly came forth th e 26th. I t is n o t very common in
Georgia, and is, I believe, n o t found in Virginia.
How beautiful is the occafional uniformity as well as the infinite variety of Nature! This
butterfly, nearly related to the laft, feeds in its caterpillar fiate on a plant of the fame genus,
though a different fpecies; and the two caterpillars have a great affinity to each other, though
one has fix horns, the other but four. The pupa are extremely fimilar, except in fize, and
are fufpended in the fame manner to a leaf.
The fpecies o f Swallow-wort now before us is, we believe, a nondefeript, though formerly
cultivated in the Kew Garden, and now preferred in Sir Jofeph Banks’s Herbarium. It fhould
be inferted among the firft fpecies in the Syfiema Vegetabilium, and may be denominated
Afclepias amplexicaulis, foliis fejjiltbus ellipticis uhdidatis glaberrimis: baß cordatis amplexicaulibus.
umbellis terminalibus.
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