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LEPIDOPTERA. 
profile somcAvliat like a Roman nose ; and on tlie back are 
two rows of very sharp tubercles of a golden color. The 
caterpillars are cylindrical, and armed with branching spines ; 
they live in company, at least during the early period of their 
existence, and do not conceal themselves under a web or 
Avithin a folded leaf. 
Vanessa Antiopa, L. Antiopa Butterfly.^ (Tig* I'-l*) 
Wings purplish broAvn aboA^e, Avith a broad bulf-yelloAV 
margin, near the inner edge of Avhich there is a row of pale 
blue spots. 
Expands from 3 to SJ inches. 
This butterfly passes the winter in some sheltered place 
in a partially torpid state. I have found it in mid-Avinter 
Fig. 121. 
sticking to the rafters of a barn, and in the crevices of Avails 
and stone-heaps, huddled together in great numbers, Avith 
the Avings doubled together aboAm the back, and apparently 
benumbed and lifeless ; but it soon recovers its acti\fity on 
being exposed to Avarmth. It comes out of its Avinter quar- 
[ 8 This is one of the few butterflies common to this country and Europe, and 
has probably been introduced here. — !Morkis.] 
