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gregarious, are fond of following the course of small streams, above which they float up and down, also frequently gambol round high flowering forest-trees and love to settle in the late afternoon on projecting twigs, mostly in pairs, so that one might think they were beginning family life. The imagines are large, semitransparent butterflies with long, very thin antennae, scarcely thickened at the tip, without clubs or knobs. Claws, unlike
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