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lines all over them ; the yellow spots, so distinct on the 

 outer side, showing faintly through. 



The Caterpillar is large and black, with red spots 

 along the back, and reddish legs ; it is thinly furnished 

 with clusters of hairs ; it is gregarious, and feeds upon 

 the leaves of the birch, willow, and poplar, and is said 

 to be most usually found among the upper branches of 

 these trees. The chrysalis is of a dull black colour, 

 spotted with deep yellow, and of a very irregular shape. 

 In neither the larva nor the pupa state has the insect 

 been found, we believe, in this country, where its 

 appearance occurs, except just here and there a single 

 specimen or two, at long and uncertain intervals. About 

 eighty years ago it was seen in great numbers in many 

 parts of the kingdom, and again in 1819, but not since 

 then, although almost every year one or more specimens 

 are taken or seen. 



This fly obtained its common name from having been 

 first observed in the neighbourhood of Camberwell, in 

 the county of Surrey ; it is also sometimes called the 

 Grand Surprise, and the White Border. The scientific 

 name will take us again among the heathen gods and 

 goddesses. Antiope, we are told, was a daughter of 

 Nycteas, king of Thebes, who went through a variety of 

 strange adventures, of the account of which we can only 

 say, that if it is altogether false, so much the better ; 

 for, little as we like story-telling, what this Antiope is 



