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In addition to the three species of Vanessa, which we have 

 figured upon our plates, it should be mentioned that there is a 

 very pretty species, known as Vanessa californica, which oc- 

 curs upon the Pacific Coast. It somewhat closely resembles 

 the European Vanessa urticae. In southern California it is 

 only found upon the mountains, but about Vancouver and 

 elsewhere in British Columbia it occurs at sea-level. It is a 

 pugnacious little thing, and fights at sight any other butterfly 

 which comes near. The food-plant of the larva is Ceanothus 

 thyrsiflorus. W. G. Wright informs us that the butterfly in 

 the spring delights to feed upon the gum of Abies concolor, 

 when it is still fluid. 



GENUS PYRAMEIS DOUBLEDAY 

 (THE RED ADMIRAL AND PAINTED LADIES). 



The butterflies of this are like those of the last genus in the 

 structure of their wings, except that the hind wings are not 

 angulate, and below the hind wings are generally marked with 

 eye-like spots. Egg ovoid, closely resembling that of Vanessa. 

 Larva like that of Vanessa, but spines relatively not so large 

 and not so distinctly branching. Form of chrysalis very like 



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