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Ubseroatiun. Tlie eggs of thin species, (wliich has several 

 liroods ill the year), wlien laid in suniiner are liat<-.licd in a 

 few days ; but if not laid till the close of the autumn, they 

 remain dormant through the winter, and are hatched at the 

 return of spring. The larva' arrive at their ftiU size about 

 June, when they throw out from their tails a web, by which 

 they suspend themselves under the leaves, or on the stalks 

 of nettles, and are transformed into chrysalids ; In this con- 

 dition they continue about twenty days, when they lussume 

 the perfect state. This .species hybemates in the perfect 

 state, and sometimes survives the winter. 



VANESSA C. ALBUM, COMMA. 



Lcu'iii, pi. 5. Donovan, V. 6, p. 199. Duncan, pi. 17, /ii,'. i. 



ButlcrJIy. Wings above, dark Orange, spotted with black 

 and brown, with a brown posterior margin. Primary angular 

 sinuated. Secondary dentate tailed. Primary underneath, 

 brown <:loudcd with gi"ey, with a broad irregiilar marbled 

 pale band near the posterior margin. Secondary underneath, 

 at the base brown clouded with grey, paler at the tij), with 

 the letter C reversed, and snowy white. A scries of spurious 

 eyelets with a greenish iris, and l)lack pu]>il near the pos- 

 terior margin of both mngs underneath. 



Caterpillar. Of a pale tawny orange, dorsally anteriorly 

 yellow, posteriorly white. 



Chrysalis. Fleshy, contracted in the middle, reddish dotted 

 with gold. 



Observation. This is not a common insect, and is rather 

 local ; those hatched in the antmnn are generally paler than 

 the first brood. 



