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caterpillar, bristly, blackish, with four yellowish lines, lives in com- 

 panies on the nettle. The Peacock Butterfly ( Vanessa lo, Fig. 161) 

 is very easily recognised by the peacock's eyes — to the number of 

 four, one on each wing — which have gained for it the name it bears. 

 The eye on the upper wings is reddish in the middle and surrounded 

 'jy a yellowish circle. That on the lower ones is blackish, with a 

 ^rgy circle round it, and contains bluish spots. The upper part of 

 :he wings is of a russety brown, the under part blackish. This 

 Vanessa is met with in the woods, in lucerne fields, and in gardens. 

 [ts spiny caterpillar is of a shiny black with white dots, and lives 

 n companies on nettles. The chrysalis, at first greenish, then 

 )ro\vnish, is ornamented with golden spots. 



Fig. 162. — Camberwell Beauty (K««6'wvi y^w^/^^/rt). 



The Va/iessa Antiopa (Fig. 162), one of the greatest of entomo- 

 ogical rarities in England, is not very common in the woods about 

 Vis, but it is frequently found in the environs of Bordeaux, and, 

 bove all, at the Grande Chartreuse (in the department of Isere). 

 The Parisian collectors go as far as Fontainebleau in pursuit of this 

 leautiful species, with angular wings, of a dark purple black, with a 

 ellowish or whitish band on the hind border and a succession of 

 >lue spots above it. The caterpillar is black, and bristly, with red 

 pots. It lives in companies on the birch, the aspen, the elm, and 

 ifferent kinds of willows. The pupa is blackish, sprinkled with a 

 'luish powder, and has ferruginous-coloured dots. The butterfly, 

 ^hich emerges from the chrysalis in July and August, is found, after 

 ybernation, at the end of February and until May. It flies very 

 ipidly, and is very difficult to catch. 



