190 THE INSECT WOELD. 



in lucerne fields, and in gardens. Its spiny caterpillar is of 

 a shiny black with white dots, and lives in companies on nettles. 

 The chrysalis, at first greenish, then brownish, is ornamented with 

 golden spots. 



Fig. 162. Carnberwell Beauty ( Vanessa Antiopn). 



The Vanessa Antiopa (Fig. 162), one of the greatest of entomo- 

 logical rareties in England, is not very common in the woods 

 about Paris, but it is frequently found in the environs of Bordeaux, 

 and, above all, at the Grande Chartreuse (in the department of 

 Isere). The Parisian collectors go as far as Fontainebleau in pur- 

 suit of this beautiful species, with angular wings, of a dark purple 

 black, with a yellowish or whitish band on the hind border and 

 a succession of blue spots above it. The caterpillar is black, and 

 bristly, with red spots. It lives in companies on the birch, the 

 aspen, the elm, and different kinds of willows. The pupa is 

 blackish, sprinkled with a bluish powder, and has ferruginous- 

 coloured dots. The butterfly, which emerges from the pupa in 

 July and August, is found, after hybernation, at the end of 

 February and until May. It flies very rapidly and is very difficult 

 to catch. 



The Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta, Fig. 163) has 

 bands of vermilion colour on the upper side of its wings, which 

 are black above, and variegated beneath with different colours. 

 The caterpillar is bristly and blackish, with a succession of 

 spots of lemon- colour on its sides. It lives in solitude on the 

 stinging-nettle (Urtica dioica). Its chrysalis is blackish, with 



