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at the hinder margin, and the shortness of their fore-legs 

 which do not serve the purpose of walking. 



Another species of the same genus (Vanessa), less common 

 than the above, is the lo, or "Peacock's eye," so called from 

 the eye-like spots, looking out from the deep brown-red of 

 its ample wings. Then there is a Butterfly of another sort, a 

 yellow-robed harbinger of spring, the very first that comes 

 regularly in that capacity, whose appearance we must an- 

 nounce to be at hand. We might have met him even in our 

 ramble of to-day. If we had, we should have known and 

 welcomed him as our favourite "Brimstone," he of the 

 smooth-cut sulphur-coloured pinions, all four ending in a 

 pointed angle, and dashed with a speck of reddish-brown. 



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