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CAMBER WELL BEAUTY. 



Vanessa Antiopa. 



PLATE XVIII. Fig. 2. 



Papilio Antiopa, Linn. — Donovan, iii. 45, pi. 89. — Lewin^ 

 pi. 1 The Willow Butterfly, Wilke's English Butter- 

 flies, pi. 113.— Curtis, B. E. ii. 96. 



This is one of the largest of our indigenous but- 

 terflies, the expansion of the wings sometimes ex- 

 ceeding three inches. The upper side of both wings 

 is a uniform deep purplish-brown, having the ap- 

 pearance of velvet, bounded externally by a broad 

 band of velvet-black, in which are placed a series of 

 pretty large violet-blue spots, of an oblong shape on 

 the hinder wings, hut usually with a tendency to a 

 crescent form in the anterior pair : beyond this there 

 is a broad cream-coloured border, slightly waved on 

 the inner side, and sprinkled with minute black 

 points, especially on the salient angles. The ante- 

 rior border has two cream-coloured spots beyond 

 the middle, and is mottled with yellow towards the 

 base. The under side is shining dark brown, with 

 transverse waved lines of deep black, and a small yel- 

 lowish spot near the middle of each wing, and two 

 larger ones on the anterior border. 



