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Vanessa antiopa, Linn—The Antiopa Butterfly. 
This beautiful butterfly, occurring throughout this country and 
Europe, is two-brooded, the last brood, it is said, passing the winter 
in the perfect state, and flying abroad the first warm days of spring 
ere the snow is off. 
The wings expand from three to three and a half inches. They 
are purplish brown above, with a broad buff-yellow margin, near the 
inner edge of which there is a row of pale blue spots. 
The caterpillars live together in great numbers on the poplar, wil¬ 
low and elm, on which they may be found in June and August. They 
are black, minutely dotted with white, and with a row of eight dark 
brick-red spots on the top of the back. They are covered with spines 
on all but the first segment that are similar to those of the Graptas. 
They are not usually sufficiently numerous to occasion serious injury. 
Pyrameis atalanta, Linn—The Atalanta Butterfly. 
The fore wings are truncate at the tip, but the angles less sharp 
than in the two preceding genera, and the sinus or indentation in the 
middle of the edge is not so deep. No point near the hind angle, and 
the hind wings not tailed. Color of both wings above black, with 
several white spots near the tips of the fore wings, and abroad orange- 
red band crossing the fore wings from the middle of the costa to the 
hind angle; and an outer border of the same on the hind wings, on 
which is a row of black dots. The two dots near the anal angle are 
centered with blue. There are no silvery marks on the underside. 
Expands from two and one-fourth to three inches. 
The caterpillars are brown, more or less dotted with white, a black 
head, rough with elevated white points, white branching spines on 
the back, and on each side a row of yellow crescents. They feed on 
the leaves of nettles, each rolling up the edges of the leaf and fasten¬ 
ing it with silk and living in the enclosure. 
There are two broods in a season. 
Pyrameis huntera, Drury—Hunter’s Butterfly. 
Expands from two and a quarter to two and a half inches. The 
wings are tawny or reddish brown above, variagated and spotted with 
black and white. Hind wings fawn-brown beneath, marbled and 
streaked with white, with two large eye-like spots near the hind mar¬ 
gin. 
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of thistles, sunflowers, holyhock, 
burdock and other rough-leaved plants. They are rough, spiny like 
the preceding. 
