NYMPHALIDiE. 



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strikingly marked creatui'e. Its Ixxly is Imniped, and rough horns 

 are phiced on tiie forward part of the body. Its colors are brown, 

 white and green, dark at either end, but spotted and variegated in 

 such a way that the insect is difficult to see while feeding, or at rest 



Liineiiitis. Hybrid. Female. 



on its food plant, the oak, wild cherry or willow, and looks not unlike 

 tha,t oi Lhnenitis disippus ; so much so tliat a person can never be 

 sure when he finds one (particularly as both species live on much the 



Larva of Liiiieiiiti.s Ursula. 



same plants), which butterfly it will eventually make. There is 

 frequently a good deal of variation in these larvte, even when full 

 grown, some specimens being chocolate brown, and almost black 

 toward the head and tail, wliile others are light green, with a white 

 band over the back, and a brown head and tail. Each of the last 

 brood of the season, while the caterpillars are very minute, makes a 

 silk lined tube enclosed in a small leaf at the end of a twig. This 



