profile somewhat like a Roman nose ; and on the hack are 
two rows of very sharp tubercles of a golden color. The 
caterpillars arc 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 
within a folded leaf. 
Vanessa Antiopa, L. Antiopa Butterfly. 8 (Fig. 121.) 
Wings purplish brown above, with a broad buff-yellow 
margin, near the inner edge of which there is a row of pale 
blue spots. 
Expands from 3 to 3^ inches. 
This butterfly passes the winter in some sheltered place 
in a partially torpid state. I have found it in mid-winter 
Fig. 121. 
sticking; to the rafters of a barn, and in the crevices of walls 
and stone-heaps, huddled together in great numbers, with 
the wings doubled together above the back, and apparently 
benumbed and lifeless ; but it soon recovers its activity on 
being exposed to warmth. It comes out of its winter quar- 
[ 8 This is one of the few butterflies common to this country mid Europe, and 
has probably been introduced here. — Mourns.] 
