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 proposed for a genus by Fabricius, until many years after the publication of Drury's work, 

 in the SjTiopsis of the Systema Glossatorum, published in lUiger's Magazine ; and because 

 the employment of a proper name, like Biblis, for a species, even when previously used for a 

 genus belonging to a perfectly distinct gToup, is not incorrect. 



CYNTHIA HUNTERA. 



Plate V. fig. 1. 



Order: Lepidoptera. Section: Diurna. Family: NymphalidiE, 5icajns. 



Genus. Cynthia, Fabr. Stephens. Vanessa p. Zutr. et God. Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.), Drury, Fabricius. 



Cynthia Huntera. Alis subangulatis dentatis fulvis, nigro variegatis ; anticis apice productis albo maculatis ; pos- 



ticis infra ad basin griseo reticulatis, ad extimum ocellis duobus magnis notatis. (Expans. Alar. 2 unc. 



9 lin.) 

 Syn. Papilio (Nymph.) Himtera, Fab. Si/st. Ent. p. 499. No. 240. Herbst. Pap. t. 178./. 5. 6. t. 179. /. 1 . 2. 

 Abbot and Smith, Ins. Georgia, vol. 1. tab. 9. 



Papilio (Nymph. Gemm.) Cardui Virginiensis, Drury, App. v. 2. 



Papilio lole, Cramer, Pap. l.pl. 12./. E. F. 



Papilio Bella Donna Virginiana, Peiif. Gaz.Dec. 4. tab. 33. Jig. 5. 



Habitat : New York, Maryland, Virginia (Drury). Brazil to Georgia {Enc. Mith.). 



Upper Side. The base of the wings ta\viiy orange ; the anterior, dentated and angulated ; the tips 

 and external edges are brownish black, on which are five white spots near the external angle, the largest 

 being round. The remainder of the wings is of a fine orange brown, with several black marks thereon, 

 near the anterior edges. The posterior wings are a little dentated, and of a brown orange colour like the 

 anterior, having five black spots placed near the external edge of each, two of which being larger than 

 the rest have blue centres, below these is a black border, with a row of brown-orange crescents running 

 along the middle. The cilia is black and white. 



Under Side. The anterior wings at the base are greyish, beyond which they are beautifully adorned 

 with rose-coloured and black marks, having three white spots on each near the external edge, with several 

 clouds and marks of different colours placed at the tips and anterior edges. The posterior wings 

 are of a beautiful agate colour, with many lines and narrow bars branching from, and intersecting 

 one another under different directions (like lines in a map), so as to form spots and clouds of different 

 shapes. Each wing has two eyes placed near the external edge, one larger than the other, the pupils 

 being of a blueish hue and the irides black, the small one having a yellow circle within it ; below these, a 

 purple line runs parallel with, and near to the external edge. 



The caterpillar of this insect is described by Drury as being green, with black rings 

 round the body, and as feeding about New York upon the wild balsams, appearing about 

 the latter end of July, or beginning of August. Once in about five or six years they are 

 exceedingly plentiful, at other times very scarce ; a peculiarity also noticed in the very 

 nearly allied European species, Cynthia Cardui (the Painted lady), of which species, in- 

 deed, Drury appears to have regarded it as a geographical variety. 



The caterpillar, according to Abbot, is of a browTi colour, with the incisions, and a 



