BRIMSTONE BUTTERFLIES. 



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at the hinder margin, and the shortness of their fore-legs 

 which do not serve the purpose of walking. 



Another species of the same genus (Vanessa), less common 

 than the above, is the lo, or " Peacock's eye, ; ' so called from 

 the eye-like spots, looking out from the deep brown-red of 

 its ample wings. Then there is a Butterfly of another sort, a 

 yellow-robed harbinger of spring, the very first that comes 

 regularly in that capacity, whose appearance we must an- 

 nounce to be at hand. We might have met him even in 

 our ramble of to-day. If we had, we should have known 

 and welcomed him as our favourite " Brimstone," he of the 

 smooth-cut sulphur -coloured pinions, all four ending in a 

 pointed angle, and dashed with a speck of reddish-brown. 



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