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Le Veuve et La Palatine. Plate 20:

Clouded Yellow Butterfly, female, underside, a variety of, caterpillar and chrysalis (1-6) and the Pale Clouded Yellow Butterfly, female and caterpillar. (7-9).

Dragonflies: Brilliant Emerald Somatochlora metallica and Northern Emerald Somatochlora arctica.

Emmerald Hair-streak Butterfly: Male and female. Arcas imperialis from Brazil.

Great Tortoise Shell Butterfly, papilia chloros and an Elm branch, ulmus campestris.

Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, underside, caterpillar and chrysalis (1-4) and the Comma Butterfly underside, caterpillar and chrysalis. (5-8).

Swallowtail, Easter Festoon, and Phoebus Apollo: Papilio Duponcheli, Allancastria cerisyi and Parnassius phoebus with segmented details and caterpillars.

Papillons à queue – Le chapelet bleu de cayenne, l’écharpe de la Guadeloupe, La veuve, La palatine, Phaline, Phalène chauve, Souris de la chine, Le Frangiver. Plate 18:

Ruderal (1. Bombus Harrisellus), Northern European (2. Bombus Lapponicus), Knapweed caper (3. Bombus sylvarum) and European honeybee (4. Apis mellifica)

Privet Hawk Moth, phynx ligustrtri populi and a Privet branch, ligustrum vulgare.

Cramer’s Rhetus: Two views. Rhetus Cramerii from Bahia.

Peacock Butterfly, underside, caterpillar and chrysalis (1-4) and the Camberwell Beauty Butterfly, underside and caterpillar. (5-7).

Giant butterfly moth, Papua day-flying night moth, and Joseph’s Coat moth. Castinia Japyx, Cocytia durvillii and Agarista agricola.Castinia Japyx, Cocytia durvillii and Agarista agricola.

Satin Moth, Fidonia moth, Magpie moth, Argent & Sable moth and Large Emerald moth: Phalaena Magnificaria, Fidonia plumistaria, Zerene Grossularia, Melanippe Hastaria and Geometra Papilionaria.

Damselflies: Scarce blue tail Ischnura pumilio and and common blue tail Ischnura elegans

Madagascan Sunset Moth: Urania Riphaeus.

Great Mormon Butterfly with caterpillar: Papilio Memnon from India.

Large Blue Butterfly, female, underside (1-3) and the Chalkhill Blue Butterfly underside, caterpillar and chrysalis. (5-8).

Peacock Pansy, Wood Nymph, Colour Sergeant, and the Cardinal butterfly: Junonia almana, Ideopsis juventa, Limenitis Jadera and Argynnnis Pandora.

Dragonflies: Mooland Hawker dragonfly Aeschna juncea. Male and female.

Brazilian Swallow-tail Butterfly with caterpillar: Protesilaus Leilus.

White Dragontail, Metalmark, Birdwing, Imperial Hairstreak, Blue Copper, Grecian copper and Duke of Burgundy butterflies: Lamproptera curius, Erycina Morissei, Diophtalma Cresus, Thecla Evagoras, Lyceana heteronea, Polyommatus Ottomatus and Nemcobius Lucina.

Ctenophora flabellata Asilus crabroniformis, laphria gigas, mallephore infernnalis and Midas giganteus with segment details.