so PLATE CCLX. 



The red admirable Butterfly is certainly a very common fpecies, 

 but as one of the mod beautiful of this country produces is entitled 

 to our particular confideration. 



The Caterpillars are of feveral kinds, according to the different 

 ftacres of growth. In the laft flcin they are green, with a yellow 

 ftr°pe 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 Ch.yfalis 

 is of a dark colour, ornamented with feveral fpots of mining 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 fpecies in general every feafon. 



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