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hairy, and in the wings in not having the inner margin of the 

 primaries emarginate. The larva of Vanessa differs in wanting 

 the spines on the head. 



1. V. J-album Boisd. Figured in Boisd. et Lee. pi. 50, p. 185. 



Upper side dull yellow or fulvous, with the base of the prima- 

 ries and a part of the secondaries more obscure. A little before 

 the outer edge, there is a brown ferruginous or blackish ray, which 

 on the primaries of the male often blends with the terminal edge, 

 which is nearly always powdered with blackish. The primaries 

 have four or five unequal spots on the middle and on the upper 

 edge, three short transverse bands of the same color, of which that 

 on the summit is separated by a white spot. The secondaries have 

 the upper edge black, divided by a white spot. 



Under side of the wings brown, from the base to the middle, 

 with waves more pale and others more obscure ; then, grayish- 

 white reticulated and a marginal interrupted ray of ashy blue. On 

 the middle of the inferiors, there is a small grayish mark in the 

 form of a J. 



Worth and West. — Expands three inches. 



Boisd. 



2. V. milberti Godt. Encyc. Method. IX, 307. V. furcillata Sa.y. 



Boisd. et Lee. pi. 50, p. 187. Say, Amer. Ent. II, pi. 27. 



Upper side brownish-black, traversed between the middle and 

 the extremity by a wide fulvous band, a little sinuous within, where 

 it has a paler tint, followed on the secondaries by a marginal row 

 of violet-blue crescents. 



The prit?iaries have two fulvous spots in the discoidal cellule, a 

 black spot in the band on the costal edge, and a white spot besides. 



Under side blackish, with waves more obscure, and a band of 

 paler tint corresponding to that of the upper side. 



Bod^/ blackish-brown. 



Northern States. — Expands an inch and a half. 



Boisd. 



3. V. progne Cra7n. Figured in Cram. pi. 85. Boisd. et Lee. pi. 50, p. 188. 



Upper side bright fulvous, a little paler at the extremity of the 

 primaries. These have five black spots, of which two are in the 

 discoidal cellule and three below the median nervure ; two short 



