84 SCARCE PAINTED LADY. 



between wliicli and the margin is a pale interrupted waved 

 streak. The hind wings have a slender interrupted brown line 

 near the edge, succeeded on the inside by four more or less 

 distinct eyelets, and two very slender dark lines near the margin, 

 which is lilac-coloured. 



Underneath, the fore wings are elegantly varied with white, 

 orange, brown, and pink, with two eyes near the tip. The 

 hind wings are brown near the outside, with two very large 

 eyes margined with black; and between these and the margin 

 are waved streaks of lilac, brown, and white. The margin 

 Avhite. 



The caterpillar is differently said by some to be green with 

 black rings round the body, and by others brown with the 

 segments and a line along the side yellow, and two lines along 

 the back formed alternately of white and red points. 



The chrysalis state is said to continue ten days. It is placed 

 in the leaves of plants folded and spun together. 



The plate is from jNIr. WestAvood's figure. 



