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probable there may be more than one species producing this 

 mutilation in our squirrels. 



211. Lixtxer's BUTTERFLY, Vhnessa Lintnerii, new s^Qcies. (Lepidoptera. 



Kymphalidae.) 



To discover a new species of butterfly of a large size, in the 

 State of New York, at this day, is quite an achievement, as these 

 insects are such ornaments to collections that they have been 

 sought after with the greatest avidity, and next to the beetles, our 

 larger Lepidoptera have been more fully investigated and are 

 better known than the insects of any other order. The honor of 

 such a discovery belongs to I. A. Lintner, Esq., of Schoharie, a 

 gentleman who takes much interest in the insects of this order, 

 and has communicated to me several valuable facts relating to 

 those which inhabit the section of our State where he resides. 



This butterfly is closely related to the Antiopa or White-bordered butterfly, 

 a species which is common upon both sides of the Atlantic. Its wings have 

 perfectly the same form and are similarly colored to those of the Antiopa, but 

 their pale border is twice as broad as in that species, occupying a third of the 

 length of the wings, and it is wholly destitute of the row of blue spots which 

 occur in Antiopa forward of the border. Its ground color is deep rusty brown, 

 much more tinged with liver-reddish than in Antiopa. The fore margin of 

 the anterior wings is black freckled with small transverse white streaks 

 and lines, but is destitute of the two white spots which are seen in 

 Antiopa. The broad outer border is of a tarnished pale ochre-yellow hue, 

 speckled with black the same as in Antiopa, and becomes quite narrow at 

 the inner angle of the hind pair. The wings beneath are simihir to those of 

 Antiopa, but are darker and without any sprinkling of ash-gray scales or any 

 whitish crescent in the middle of the hind pair, and the border is speckled with 

 gray and whitish in wavy transverse streaks, without forming the distinct band 

 which is seen in Antiopa. Any further description is unnecessary. A variety 

 of the Antiopa has sometimes been met with in Europe, in which tlie blue spots 

 are wholly wanting, and individuals occur in this country in which these spots 

 are faint and some of them obliterated. But this butterfly differs from the 

 Antiopa so decidedly in several other characters as to forbid our regarding it 

 as a variety of that species. Its width across the spread wings is 2.75 It was 

 captured in a grove of willows according to Mr. Lintncr's recollection. 



212. Ikkne butterfly, Aa/Aa/is Irene, new species. (Lepidoptera. Papi 

 lionida3.) 



A small yellow butterfly inhabiting Mexico closely resembles 

 those belonging to the genus Terias, but difl'ers generically in 

 having the feelers standing apart from each other, and long and 



