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grayish-white with fine reticulations, and a scarcely percept- 
ible row of dark points; and near the outer margin, is a 
wavy, dark line, followed by a narrow, ashy-blue shade. 
The larva is two inches long, light green; head with black 
markings on the sides, thickly set with bristles and short 
spines, of. which the lateral ones are each tipped with a long 
bristle, and armed with two shining, black, thick spines, 
whorled near the tip. The three upper rows of spines on 
the body are shining black, except at the base, which is 
reddish, with long branches, those of the forward segments 
more numerously branched than the others, and having each 
point tipped with a bristle. The remaining spines are reddish, 
tipped with black. 
The pupa is one inch long, of a beautiful green color, del- 
icately reticulated, with six golden spots on the back; spines 
and projections similar to those in G. comma. 
The food-plant is not known, but it may be willow. The 
above description of the larva and pupa was taken from Prof. 
Lintner’s account of one which he found crawling on the 
ground in a dense grove of varied timber. The butterfly 
hibernates and appears on the wing early in the spring, and 
again about the middle of August. 
25. VANESSA ANTIOPA, L. 
Va-nes’-sa an-ti’-0-pa. 
Expanse of wings, two and one-half to three inches. 
Upper side of wings, purplish or dark reddish brown, with 
the outer edge of the wings pale yellow, somewhat sprinkled 
with black, and preceded by a black band, on which is a row 
of violet-blue spots. The costa of the fore wings is black, 
with cross streaks of yellowish, and two oblique yellow 
dashes beyond the middle. Under side of the wings, very 
dark brown, with numerous wavy cross lines of black, and 
the outer margins and discal points, dull white, sprinkled 
with brown. 
