56 BUTTERFLIES OF MAINE. 
This species hibernates in the perfect state 
during the winter, and appears in the spring 
with the wings much worn and faded. The 
females deposit a dozen or more pale yellow, 
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may feed. The mature larve are two inches 
a. long, black, minutely dotted with white, which 
Vette, gives them a grayish look. There is a row of 
encircling the bright, brick-red spots along the top of the 
ee by elm. back. Head black, and roughened with small, 
black tubercles. The spines on the body are 
black, rather long, and slightly branching: four each on the 
second and third segments, six on the fourth and fifth, and 
seven on each, from the sixth to the twelfth, inclusive. The 
last segment has two pairs of short spines, one behind the 
other. 
The pupa is dark brown or gray, with two rows of conical 
spines along the back of the abdomen, two on the head in 
front, three on the edge of the wing-covers on each side, and 
a thin prominence on the middle of the thorax. 
Hibernated specimens of this butterfly are on the wing in 
the spring, and fresh specimens of the next brood are out 
about the middle of August. 
26. VANESSA MILBERTI, Godt. 
Va-nes’-sa mil-ber’-ti. 
Expanse of wings, two and-one-fourth inches. 
Upper side of wings, blackish brown, with a wide, fulvous 
band across both wings, between the middle and the outer 
margin, slightly wavy, and of a paler tint on its inner edge, 
followed on the outer border of the hind wings, with a row 
of violet crescents. The fore wings have two fulvous spots on 
the cell, a black spot in the band on the costa, with a white 
