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exercise of a liltle care and patience the collector can usually 

 succeed in capturing them, — a result which is considerably 

 aided by the boldness of these Butterflies. 



73. Pyrameis Cardui. 



Papilio Cardui, J Ami., Syst. Nat., II, p. 774, n. 157. 

 Fah., Syst. Ent., p. 499, n. 239. 



Papilio Carduelis, Cram., Pai^. Exot., pi. 26, f. E, F. 



Papilio Cardui, Fah., Ent. Syst., Ill, 1, p. 104, n. 320. 



Vanessa Cardui, Hiihn., Verz. Bek. Schmett., p. 33. 



Godt., Enc. MetL, IX, p. 323, n. 62. 



Cynthia Cardui, Steph., III. Brit. Ent. — Haust., I. p. 47. 



Vanessa Cardui, Boisd., Faune Ent. de Mad., p. 43. 



Cynthia Cardui, Duncan, Brit. Butt., pi. 19, f. 2, 2. 



„ „ Westiv. and Humph., Brit. Butt., pi. 15, 



[f. 7, 8. 



Vanessa Cardui, Boisd., Jpp. Voy. de Deleg., p. 592. 

 „ ,, E. Douhl., List. Lep. Brit. Mus., I, p. 79. 



Pyrameis Cardui, Chenu, Enc. d'Hist. Nat. — Pap., f. 213. 



Cynthia Cardui, Staint., Man. Brit. Butt, and Moths, p. 37. 



Pyrameis Cardui, Ilorsf. ^' Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C, 



[p. 138, 



Expands 2 in. 2 lin. — 2 in. 7 lin. 



Paler or darker salmon-red, inclining to orange-ochreous, 

 varied with black ; apical portion of fore-wing black, spotted 

 with white. Fore-wing : basal portion blackish, thickly dust- 

 ed with golden scales; in discoidal cell a short, rather broad, 

 black, transverse mark, the lower edge of which almost 

 touches the upper point of an irregular, angulated, black 

 marking, commencing on inner-margin beyond middle, and 

 thence, arching outwardly, extending along third median 

 nervule into discoidal coll ; apical black extending fully half- 

 way along costa, — its inner edge forming two deep, irregularly- 

 angulate inundations on the salmon-red ground-colour, and 

 containing an elongate, abruptly-truncate, white stripe from 

 costa, divided into three by nervules, beyond which is a 

 curved row of four white spots from costa to first median 

 nervule, parallel to hind-margin ; two rows of lunules along 

 hind-margin, the outer row ochreous, the inner whitish, be- 

 coming half obliterated near anal angle ; fringe chequered 

 black and white. Hind-wing : costal, basal, and inner-mar- 

 ginal portions broadly blackish, the two latter dusted with 

 golden scales, and inner- marginal region with long, silky, 

 golden hairs ; a little beyond middle, a transverse blackish 

 stripe, thin near costa, but suddenly thickening on first 

 median nervule, unites costal and inner-marginal blackish ; 



