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which are reddish. The very strange looking chrysalis is 
russety, marked with white; it is suspended by its tail, and 
has on the middle of its back a curious and prominent pro- 
jection like a Roman nose. Besides the food-plants given 
above, the caterpillars feed also upon the willow, scrub-oak, 
whortleberry and gooseberry. 
The Ursula Butterfly or Red-spotted Purple is not a 
common insect, and the injuries caused by it are usually 
Fig. 19—Limenitis disippus, adult; a, egg, greatly enlarged; c, egg, natural size; 
d, one of the pits, still more enlarged. After Riley. 
slight. Still it sometimes happens that for some’reason this 
species becomes very numerous, stripping the leaves from 
anentire tree. The butterfly is shown in Fig. 22, plate III. 
Further north a closely related species, the Banded 
Purple, is sometimes very common. Its caterpillar feeds 
upon the wild cherries. At Lake Vcrmillion the writer has 
seen this species, the (Limenitis arthemis Dru.), so numerous 
that during June hundreds of them could be found in the 
