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again becomes common, the first brood of the season having emerged 

 from chrysalid. A second brood appears about the middle of September. 

 In England, where it is rare and considered a great prize by the collec- 

 tors, it is known as the Camberwell Beauty. The larvae feed upon the 

 leaves of willow, elm and poplar. 



39. (221.) VANESSA MILBERTII, Godt. Milbert's Butterfly. The 



American Tortoise- shell. 



Vanessa milbertii, Harris?, Ina. Inj., 1862, 302, fig. 1^5. 

 Morris, Lep. N. A., 1862, 56. 

 Mead, Rep. Wheeler Exp., V. 1875, 769. 

 Packard, Guide, 8th Ed., 1883, 259. 

 French, But. E. U. S., 1886, 195. 

 Aglais milberti, Scudder, But. E. U. S. and Can., 1889, I, 420; 



III, pis. 2, 12, 20, 64, 74, 83. 



This brilliantly colored Vanessa has a wide distribution, but appears to 

 be nowhere as common as Antiopa, with which species it agrees essentially 

 in habits. 



In Indiana it has been taken only in Lake and Vanderburgh counties, 

 from both of which it is reported as rare. Food plant, nettle. Vander- 

 burgh County is, as far as known, the most southern station at which it 

 has been taken. 



"The butterfly is found most abundant by the roadside, especially 

 among the hills, and by the margin of forests. It is always found in 

 sunny exposures; is fond of resting on dry leaves scattered over the 

 ground in spring, aiid, like many other early butterflies, is attracted by 

 the blossoms of the lilac."- SCUDDER. 



PYRAMEIS, Doubleday. 



40. (222.) PYRAMEIS ATALANTA, Linn. The Red Admiral. The At- 



alanta Butterfly. 



Cynthia atalanta, Harris, Ins. Inj., 1862, 294, fig. 120. 

 Pyrameis atalanta, Morris. Lep. N. A., 1862, 58. 



French, Sev. Rep. St. Ento., 111., 1878, 153. 

 Id., But. E. U. 8., 1886, 196, fig. 55. 

 Packard, Guide, 1883, 261. 

 Blatchley, Ind. Farmer, 1887, April 23. 

 Vanessa atalanta, Wood, Insects at Home, 1873, 399, pi. 13. 



Scudder, But. E. U. S. and Can., 1889, I, 441; 



III, pis. 2, 12, 20, 64, 74, 83. 



A common and showy butterfly, which also hibernates as imago, and 

 cornea forth from its winter quarters on the first warm days of March and 

 April. It is most abundant, however, about June 10 and September 20, 



