Fig. 167.—Limenitis camilla.
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.
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.
