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here, and for the purpose of comparison, their description is 

 inserted : — 



3. G. C-album Linn. 



Nearly the size of G. progne. 



Upper side fulvous or ferruginous, with scattered black spots ; 

 outer edge more or less obscure. 



Under side sometimes brownish-black, sometimes brownish- 

 yellow, with green atoms on the outer half, which, with the excep- 

 tion of the costal margin, is always lighter. 



Under side of secondaries has a G or C of pure white on the 

 disk. 



Body blackish, with greenish hairs on the thorax. 



Antennce black above, brown below, with white rings ; extremity 

 of the club reddish. 



Environs of Philadelphia only. 



BOIS. ET Lec. 



VANESSA Fab. 



Clothed with long hairs, eyes densely hairy ; labial palpi porrect, 

 projecting beyond the forehead, scaly and densely hairy all round ; 

 first joint much curved, second swollen beyond the middle, third 

 nearly acicular. Antenna? about three-fourths the length of the 

 body, with two distinct grooves below ; club rather short, last 

 joint minute, pointed. Thorax clothed with long hairs. Prima- 

 ries subtriangular, apex truncate. Anterior margin but little 

 curved, sometimes deeply emarginate; inner margin nearly straight, 

 costal nervure rather stout, extending about to the middle of the 

 anterior margin. Secondaries somewhat obovate. Inner margin 

 the longest ; outer margin more or less sinuate, dentate, prolonged 

 into a tooth or short tail at the termination of the third median 

 nervule. Abdomen about two-thirds the length of the inner mar- 

 gin of the posterior wing. Larva cylindric, head and first thoracic 

 segment unarmed, the rest armed with long spines, set with set® 

 in whorls. Pupa very angular and tuberculate ; head deeply bifid, 

 often adorned with golden spots. 



Vanessa differs from Grapta in the palpi, which are much less. 



