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A. E. Verrill — The Bermuda Island*. 



were seen in April, 1901. Its large, purplish black, spinose larva; 

 feed on the elm and willow, sometimes on poplars ; in Bermuda 

 probably on the weeping willow. Easily recognized by its dark 

 maroon-brown wings, bordered by a row of blue spots and a mar- 

 ginal light drab band. 



Single specimens of Vanessa to* (fig. 123) and of V. polychloros] 

 are recorded by Jones, ls76, as taken by Canon Tristram in 1848. 

 They are both European species. It is doubtful if they have become 

 fully naturalized here. 



Figure 123. —European Peacock Butterfly (Vanessa id) ; a, b, imago; c, pupa; 



% natural size ; after Berge. 



Musk Butterfly ; Buck-eye; Lavinia ; Peacock Butterfly. (Juno- 

 nia ccenia (Hubn.); Scudder; Holland, \ etc.). Figure 124. 



First recorded by Hurdis as captured May 15, 1849 ; also Sept. 

 12, 1854. He stated that it was common throughout the year. J. 

 M. Jones, 187G, says it is "the most common butterfly." It was 

 sent to me by Mr. T. G. Gosling, in 1901. Its larva feeds on Linaria 

 (snapdragon), purple Gerardla, and allied scrophulariaceous plants, 

 and sometimes on ground-plantain (Plantago). According to Mr. 



* Vanessa io has the fore wings above reddish brown with four patches of 

 black, separated by yellow, of which two are angular, one semicircular on upper 

 half of ocellated spot, which has lower half brown with yellow dots, and front 

 margin of yellow; five round blue spots in a row; margin dark. Hind wing 

 blackish brown ; large ocellated spot with black pupil and blue central spots, 

 border whitish ; under side of both wings brownish black. See figure 114. 



f V. jwlychloros has the upper side of the wings mostly brownish orange with 

 about six or seven irregular and unequal spots of black on the fore wings ; a 

 submargiual band of black, externally margined with yellow, on both pairs ; on 

 the hind wings a band of blue between the black and yellow : front edge of fore 

 wings with a submargiual stripe of yellow. 



\ Holland, W. J., Butterfly Book, p. 173. pi. iii, figs, 29, 30, larva ; pi. iv. figs. 

 56, 57, 65-67, pivpa; pi. xx, fig. 7, female imago. 



