LEPIDOPTERA. 



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only seek to terrify themselves, and to see prodigies in everything, 

 believe that during the night it had rained blood." 



In the family of Nymphalidce, we will first mention the White 

 Admiral (Fig. 166). The 

 upper side of its wings is of 

 a dark brown, almost black, 

 traversed in the middle by a 

 white band divided into spots 

 very close to each other. The 

 lower part of the wings is 

 ferruginous, with a band and 

 spots of white, as on the 

 upper, besides which it has 

 a double hinder transverse 

 row of black dots. These 

 dots are followed on the hind wings by some white spots, and the 

 whole of the inner margin is of a glossy ashy blue, with the base 



Fig. 166. White Admiral (Limenitis sibilla). 



Fig. 167. Limenitis Camilla. 



spotted with black. This butterfly is not rare in the month of July 

 in woods in the south of England, where it flies round and settles 

 upon the branches of the underwood. The caterpillar is of a delicate 



