The Insect World / Being a Popular Account of the Orders of Insects; Together with a Description of the Habits and Economy of Some of the Most Interesting Species

by Louis Figuier

Fig. 169.—Charaxes jasius.

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.

Fig. 170.—Larva of Charaxes jasius about to change to a pupa.		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.

Fig. 172.—Chionobas aello.

We now pass on to the second section of Lepidoptera.