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of September to the end of October, by which time 

 its food in our gardens has pretty well disappeared. 

 Some sheltered wall, garnished with the bloom of the 

 ivy, may prolong its being a little longer, but the 

 cold and the dampness of the season soon destroy it, 

 rendering the life of this creature, the most beautiful 

 of our lepidopterous tribes, of very brief duration."* 



* Journal of a .ft alarmist, p. 290. 



