206 ORDER tXPIDOrrERA. 



UrRcr !ip»>t tlinn ilthrr "f thr five ; t>cy..iul, h «liiiky patch wllh the aprx Mack. 



PuaTcmoii wiM.n, mx'lly iliu»ky hlnrk, l«ut hn.wni^li li>»nrtU ihe Ih-m : taiU niul 



inarnin^ |«t.wi|ir«-.i wllh rwUlish whitr : Unrulli prnji'li. iii..Hli<| rr<!«li»h "r • rnDp.-. 



■ml with i.ltscurr !H>ot» of lightrr nnd ilarkcr color jMirlnklnf; luoir or lf» «f brown. 



IIImlwIiif^H mnrkrti wl h a sllvrry ( o|H-niiiR outwards. 

 This sjHTlcs nirMi.-.hrt c.nsUlrnthh- variation In the marking*, as well as In c^p(^n^l. n 

 of wliigTi. It la a common sjk-cU's, gt-nerally •tmallcr tlinn the rrd admiral and mntna but- 

 trrfly. 



Dr. IIahhis ncnnlr* this sim-cIi-s and I', argm/ca, descrllfcd by the late H«-v. W. KiisBV 

 in thr Fauna Hortali y'lmtricana, ns the some. 



Va.missa comma ( Harris). 

 Dr. H.vHHis has recently descrilieti im Annricnn comma butterfly, which had been 

 rvganied as Identical with the Euroi>ean : although closely resembling the latter, the 

 hinder wiiiRS are not so deeply Indented, which feature may serve to distingui^h the two. 

 For description, s*-** IIaukis's Injurious Iii.sects, v!d edition, jt. 211. 



\ .\M.ss.\ r<ii.Y( iii.<'H"s ! I > imna Butterfly. 



Aktuiiur wi.ngs, dusky orange, darker at Imse, marked with four large suUjuadrate jfxjts 



U{)on the disk, of which three are in a llne.und the other is i>lace«l l>el«>w the middle 



sj>ol of the three : cost«l margin with three large abbreviated fa.sciie, the middle one 



<hc largest, the apical one smallest and uhiter : outer margin dusky, and marked 



with an irregular pale line. Pusti;kioh winus have a large black or dark br<>wn 



costal sjwt : outer margin marked with crescents, w hich are not sufficiently distinct 



to warrant in.s«-rti<>n in this description, owing to injury : a slender p<de line is visible 



running j>arallel witli the etlge. Beneath the w ings are clouded, the l^asal jxjrtion much 



the darkest ; the hicher |M.rtioii, or broad Iwnd is slriatrd transverM-ly by numerous 



darker interrupted lines. In the middle of the i>osterior wing there is a silvery cur\ed 



line. 



The individual al>ove descrilied tlilTers almut as much frvim the English polychloros, as 



our Vanessa ataJanta or Cynthia cardui from theirs. The most important jwint not made 



out, relate.* to the bluish lunules upon the outer margin ; but on ap]>ly ing our polycMtrcs 



to the English figure, I find it tits in length and bn>adth,and als> theangulated and scol- 



lopped edges. There is a close corres]>on<lence in the ] altern> nl>««ve and I)enealh,and the 



general resemblance is *o near that it will not be safe to treat vur sjecits as distinct fr<.m 



the English. 



