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in lucerne fields, and in gardens. Its spiny caterpillar is of 
a shiny black with white dots, and lives in companies on nettles. 
The chrysalis, at first greenish, then brownish, is ornamented with 
golden spots. 

Fig. 162.— Camberwell Beauty (Vanessi Antiopr), 
The Vanessa Antiopa (Fig. 162), one of the greatest of entomo- 
logical rareties in England. is not very common in the woods 
about Paris, but it is frequently found in the environs of Bordeaux, 
and, above all, at the Grande Chartreuse (in the department of 
Isére).. The Parisian collectors go as far as Fontainebleau in pur- 
suit of this beautiful species, with angular wings, of a dark purple 
black, with a yellowish or whitish band on the hind border and 
a succession of blue spots above it. The caterpillar is black, and 
bristly, with red spots. -It lives in companies on the birch, the 
aspen, the elm, and different kinds of willows. The pupa ‘is 
blackish, sprinkled with a bluish powder, and has ferruginous- 
coloured dots. The butterfly, which emerges from the pupa in 
July and August, is found, after hybernation, at the end of 
February and until M ay. It flies very rapidly and is very difficult 
to catch. 
The Red Admiral butterfly (Vanessa Atalanta, Fig. 163) has 
bands of vermilion colour on the upper side of its wings, which 
are black above, and variegated beneath with different colours. 
The caterpillar is bristly and blackish, with a succession of 
spots of lemon-colour on its sides. Tit lives in solitude on the 
stinging-nettle (Urtica dioica). Its chrysalis is blackish, with 


