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The red admirable Butterfly is certainly a very common fpecies, 

 but as one of the moft beautiful this country can boaft of, is en- 

 titled to our particular coilfideration« 



The Caterpillars are of feveral kinds, according to the different 

 flages of growth. In the laft Ikin they are green, with a yellow 

 flripe on each fide of the belly, and befet with curioufly ramified, 

 or branching fpines : fometimes they are black, with a yellow belly, 

 or black, variegated with red, brown, and yellow. The Chryfalis 

 is of a dark colour, ornamented with feveral fpots of fhining gold. 

 The Caterpillars are found on the nettle in June and July : it re- 

 mains in Chryfalis twenty-one days, and the Butterfly appears in 

 Auguft. There are two broods of this fpecjes in general every feafon. 



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