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y. ceenia, Hiibn., which expands from two to two and a 

 half inches ; the wings are dark brown above, each with 

 a large and a small eye-like spot on both sides ; the 

 fore wings have two orange-red spots near the middle of 

 the front margin, and a whitish band enclosing the eye- 

 like spots, and the hind wings a reddish band near their 

 hind margin. It is common in the Southern States all 

 summer ; rarer northward 



The Genus Vanessa has the wings tailed or jagged 

 on their hind edges. The caterpillars are armed with 

 branching spines, and live in company. 



The Antiopa Butterfly, V. antiopa, Ochs., expands about 

 three and a half inches, and the wings are purplish brown 

 above, with a broad buff-yellow margin, near the inner 

 edge of which is a row .of blue spots. This butterfly 

 first appears in midsummer, and a second brood appears 

 in autumn, and some of the latter may be found either 

 flying or in sheltered places throughout the winter. The 

 caterpillars are spiny, black, minutely dotted with white, 

 with a row of eight dark brick-red spots on the back. 



The White J-Butterfly, V. j-album, Boisd. & LeC, ex- 

 pands two and a half to three inches, and has on the 

 under side of the hind wings a j -shaped, silvery white 

 mark. 



Milbert's Butterfly, V. Milberti, Godart, expands over 

 two inches, and is black above, with a broad orange-red 

 band near the hind margin of all the wings, behind which, 

 on the hind wings, there is a row of blue crescents, and 

 on the fore wings a white spot near the tips, and two 

 orange-red spots near the middle of the front margin. 



The Genus Grapta has the wings more incised than 

 Vanessa. The Semicolon Butterfly, G. interrogationis, 

 Doubl., expands two and a half inches or more, and is 

 distinguished by the pale golden semicolon on the mid- 

 dle of the under surface of the hind wings. 



