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THE CANADIAN NATURALIST 
surface is very delicate : and I do not see that it is Jess beau- 
tiful because it is diminutive ; though if it were as large 
as a Swallow-tail or a Camberwell Beauty, it would strike 
the attention more readily. 
F. — There is often considerable diversity in the vivid- 
ness of colour of different individuals of the same species of 
butterfly or moth ; one being much more beautiful than an- 
other ; in the same individual^ however, one wing in general 
LARVA, PUPA, AND IMAGO OF THE BANDED PURPLE. 
(Limenitis Arthemis*) 
