ADMIRAL RED. 
173 
of September to the end of October, by which time 
its food in our gardens has pretty well disappeared. 
Some sheltered wall, garnished with the bloom of the 
ivy, may prolong its being a little longer, but the 
cold and the dampness of the season soon destroy it, 
rendering the life of this creature, the most beautiful 
of our lepidopterous tribes, of very brief duration.”* 
Journal of a Naturalist, p. 290. 
