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black ; the remainder cannine, with a waved black line crossing them from the upper to the abdominal 

 corners. 



Under Side. Palpi grey. Breast red, with two black spots on each side. Legs grey. Wings 

 coloured as on the upper side ; the red colour on the inferior ones reaching to the body. Margins of 

 the wings entire. 



VANESSA ANACARDII. 



Plate IV. fig. 1, 2. 



Order : Lepidoptera. Section : Diurna. Family ; Nymplialidae, Swains. 



Genus. Vanessa, FabHcius, Latr. God. Hamadryades, Hiihii. Papilio (Nymph. Gemmat.) Drurt/. (Dan. 



Cand.) Linn. 

 Vanessa Anacardii. Alls subdontatis ; supra iiiarjaritaceis extimumque versus nigro punctatis, anticis 



falcatis, postieis extus caudatis oeelloque ad angtilum ani uotatis. (Expans. Alar. 3 unc. 9 liii.) 



Syn. Papilio (Dan. Cand.) Anacardii, Linn. Syst. Nat. 11. 758. No. 74.? Fabr. Bnt. St/st. 1. ji. 183. .507.? 



Papilio (Nymph. Gemm.) PaiTliasius, Drury, App. vol. 3. 



Papilio 5Jthiops, Pal. Beuuv. Lep. pi. 'A. Jig. 1. 2. 



Papillon Opale, Pal. Beauv. te.vte. p. ii. 



Vanessa Aglatonice, Latr. God Enc. Meth. ix. p. 2!)9. 8. 

 Habitat : Sierra Leone (Drury). '' In Anacardio Americes," {Linn.) an recta? 



Upper Side. Antennae black. Thorax and abdomen dark green, the sides being white. Wings of 

 a beautiful changeable colour, exhibiting, accorchng to the direction in which the light falls upon them, 

 a purple, red, blue, green, and white, the two latter being the predominant colours. Anterior wings, 

 along the external edges, black, with two pale blueish spots thereon near the tips, and two round black 

 spots on the light part of the wings near the lower corners. Posterior wings with two tails, and edged 

 with a border of a brownish blue running from the upper to the abdominal corners, having thereon a 

 row of small black angular marks placed between the tendons ; three round black spots are also placed 

 near the upper corners, the lowest being the smallest; and at the abdominal comers is a small eye, 

 whose pupil is red, and iris black. 



Under Side. Palpi, breast, legs, and abdomen white. The beautiful changeable colour is not seen 

 on this side, all the wings being of a pale green. The anterior having two small eyes, the pupil being 

 red, the iris white ; the smallest of which is placed near the tips, the other lower, and towards the 

 middle of the wing. A round black spot is also placed on these wings near the body, which in the 

 figure is hid. A shade of a darker green, resembling a line, rises on these wings near the middle, and, 

 crossing the inferior ones, meets below the abdomen. Posterior wings with two little eyes, placed near 

 the upper and abdominal corners, having a faint resemblance of a border of a brighter green placed 

 along the external edges. Wings angulated. 



Linnaeus appears to have confounded this African insect with an American butterfly, 

 figured by Mad. Merian, giving the name to the African species, with the additional 

 habits of the American one. The copy of Drury's work, which belonged to Linnaeus, late 

 in the library of Sir J. E. Smith (by whom the collections of the great Swede were pur- 

 chased), and now in that of the Linnaean Society, contains a pencil note, by its late 

 possessor, of reference of this figure to the Anacardii of Linnaeus. 



