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P A P I L I O U R S U L A .
B LA C K A N D B L U E A D M IR A B L E B U T T E R F L Y .
V A C C IN IU M S T A M I NE U M. L IN N .
GREEN-WOODED WHORTLE-BERRY, OR WILD GOOSEBERRY.
4 * N Y M P H A L E S P H A L E E A T I .
P. N. alisdentatis nigris: pofticislimbo coerulefcente fafcia nigra; fubtus fulvo maculatis,
Papilio Urfula. Fair. Entom. emend. V. 4. 82.
T h is caterpillar was taken early in Ju n e feeding on th e wild goöfeberry. I t alfo
eats th e 'w ild cherry and willow. On th e 8th o f Ju n e it fufpended- itfelf b y the
tail, and changed to a chryfalis on the Qth. T h e butterfly appeared on th e 18th.
This fpecies alfo comes out o f the chryfalis early in th e fpring; I have taken it on
the 19th o f April. I t is n o t very common either in th e larva or perfect Rate,
though found in Virginia as well as in Georgia, T h e caterpillar in th e platè is
fomewhat under th e full fize.
Fabricius in his Mantifla originally dëfcribed this Papilio as belonging to the Equités, by
the name of AJlyanax. The want of the connecting nerve in the hind wing, Mr. Jones’s important
charaCteriftic of the Equités, Heliconii, and Danai, (fee Tranf. of Linn. Soc. V. 2. 69)
properly reduces it to the Nymphales, and it fhould hand near P. Populi, with which it agrees
in colouring and habit, as well as in the Angular protuberance on the pupa. The larva betrays
an affinity to the Equités.