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and allied plants, are green, slightly downy, and attain 

 an inch and a half in length, then suspend themselves 

 by a loop from the stem of a plant, and form a straw- 

 colored chrysalis. 



NYMPHALID/E, Boisd., OR NYMPHALIS FAMILY. This 

 Family comprises butterflies which are remarkable for 

 their beautiful colors and splendid ornamentation. The 

 fore legs are rudimental. 



The Genus Limcnitis has the knob of the antennae 

 long, straight, and slender, the edges of the wings, espe- 

 cially the hind ones, scalloped, but not tailed. The Mi- 

 sippus Butterfly, L. misifpus, Harr., expands from three 



Fig. 285. 



Butterfly, L. misifpus, Godart. 



to three and a half inches, and is tawny yellow above, paler 

 below, the wings veined with black and surrounded by a 

 broad black border, spotted with white, and there is a 

 triangular patch spotted with white near the tips of the 

 fore wings, and a curved black band on the hind ones. 

 The caterpillar lives on the willow and poplar. The but- 

 terfly appears in June and September. 



The Arthemis Butterfly, L. arthcmis, Boisd. & LeC, 



expands about three inches, and is at once distinguished 



by the broad white, curved band, beginning just beyond 



the middle of the front edge of the fore wings, and cross- 



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