96. 



VANESSA ANTIOPE. 

 The Camberwell Beauty. 



Order Lepidoptera. Fam. Papilionidse Lat., Leach. 



Type of the Genus Papilio Atalanta Linn. 



Vanessa Fah., Lat., Leach. Papilio Linn., Haw. 



Antenna inserted on the crown of the head, between the eyes, 

 composed of about 40 joints covered with scales above, termi- 

 nated by an ovoid, abrupt, short club, denuded at the apex (fig. 1 . 

 the club magnified). 



Labrum attached to the clypeus, minute, triangular, elongate. 

 Mandibles attached to the clypeus, remote, parallel, ciliated. 

 MaxillcE long and spiral, with a small palpus of 2 joints near the 

 base. 



Labium triangular. Palpi contiguous, porrected obliquely, some- 

 what resembling a beak, 3-jointed, covered with scales and 

 hair (4) : basal joint short, curved upward, 2nd long attenuated, 

 3rd as long as the Lst attenuated, very rigid at the apex (4 a). 

 Eyes densely pubescent, minutely reticulated (7, the head viewed be- 

 neath). Wings somewhat triangular and produced at the posterior 

 margin, a groove on the abdominal margin to receive the body, more 

 or less sinuated at the abdominal angle. Feet alike in both sexes; 

 the anterior pair not formed for walking, very hairy, like a tippet (8). 

 Tibiae dilated towards their apex (8 b). Tarsua formed of a single 

 compressed ovoid joint (c). The 4 posterior tarsi 5-jointed, termi- 

 nated by Claws arid Pulvilli with membranaceous pubescent bifid ap- 

 pendages at their base (8t). 

 harvcRwith each segment excepting the \st armed with a whorl of spines. 

 Pupse suspended by the tail, angular, head bituberculated. 



Antiope Nob. Antiopa Linn. Sijst. Nat. 2. 776. 165. Haw. Lep. Brit, 

 p. 27. n. 32. 



Dull, reddish purple. Wings with a margin of very pale straw- 

 colour, costa and 2 spots adjoining towards the apex of the same 

 colour, the former variegated with black, an indented black band 

 with 7 or 8 dull azure blue spots on each wing, next to the pale 

 margin. Beneath dark brown striped with black, margins pale 

 straw-colour. 



In the Author's and other Cabinets. 



The genus Vanessa may be distinguished by its palpi and an- 

 tennge from Argynnis and Melitaa, as well as from Apatura 

 and Limenitis: but the most decided differences are to be 



