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TAB. XXII:
P A P I L I O B A T HY L LUS,
B R O W N S E IP P E R B U T T E R F L Y .
G L Y C IN E RETICULATA. SWARTZ■ PROD. A IT . HO RT KEW. Pi » . ‘8 »»
N E T T E D -L EA V ED G L Y C IN E ;
P. P . aiis ècaudatis fufcis : prinloribus maculis fenefiratis quadratic albis; pofticis fubtus
undato-nebulofis.
T h is caterpillar feeds on th e wild bean here reprefented, and-folds th e leaves togeth
er for a retreat. Th e Ikipper caterpillars, to conceal themfelves th e better, generally
attach together w ith a web the leaves o f fome other p lan t growing next to
{hat th ey feed on, which renders them difficult to be . met w ith . This fpecies
changed th e 11th o f June. T h e butterfly liberated itfelf th e 24th. I t occurs alfo
in' Virginia,' and is one o f th e moll common Of its tribe.
■ The name of Juvenal in thé laft page led us, as we were treating, of Hie «tipping tribe of
butterflies, to recollect his
u ________ molli faltante Bathyllo," lib..6. 63. .
and it was impoffiblc to refift giving the name, of that famous dancer, the Veftris of Iris time,
to the new- fpecies before us. The fame train of ideas has cccafioned the i: Jem in the next-
plate to be called Asem', from a name to be found in the fame fatyrift a few lines after BathyL
lus, and fuppofed to indicate, not the celebrated tragic poet, but fome famous aflorj in which
laft application we aflume it.