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IN this connection the case should be recalled of the Cleopatra butterfly of southern France and Italy, the close relative of,our English Brimstone., By waving a grass-green butterfly net in its vicinity I have frequently attracted the yellow arid orange coloured males, which will flutter after the net and endeavour to settle on it. The female is similarly coloured to. the female Brimstone, but is rather larger. A blue net fails to attract them.
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BRYAN, G. A Mistaken Butterfly. Nature 95, 231 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095231b0
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