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vast numbers, that their transit occupied several hours, in a manner 

 ' mirabile dictu.' 



The caterpillar is found in the middle of July. 



It feed on the thistle, fCarduus lanceolatus , ) the nettle, ( Urtica 

 clioica,] the mallow, f Malva syhestris,) and the artichoke, ( Cijnara 

 scolymus.) 



The wings expand to the width of from two inches and a quarter 

 to two and three quarters, or a little over. The fore wings are brown 

 at the base, the tip blackish, with five white spots, the largest of which 

 adjoins the front edge, and the four others — two small ones between 

 two larger, the upper of which latter also adjoins the front edge — form 

 a curved line, between which and the margin is a slender interrupted 

 whitish line, the margin itself being white, indented crescent-wise. The 

 rest of these wings is fulvous orange, with a suffusion of pink more 

 or less extended from the upper inner part, and with three indented 

 black united spots. The hind wings have the base and the inner 

 margin brown, the remainder fulvous, with many black marks arranged 

 in three rows, the inner one forming a series of round larger and smaller 

 spots, and the outer one adjoining the margin, which is whitish. 



Underneath, the fore wings are marked nearly as above, but the 

 tawny colour is more diffused; the dark spots are smaller, and the tip 

 of tlie wing is dark stone-colour, instead of black. The hind wings 

 are mottled in the most charming manner with pale olive brown, 

 yellowish buff, and white, the veins being white. Near the hind 

 margin is a row of slender blackish blue marks, above which are four 

 eyes, the two middle ones being smaller than the two outer ones, 

 which are encircled with black. 



The caterpillar is solitary, of a brown colour, with interrupted yellow 

 lines along the side, and spined. 



The chrysalis is brown, with ash-coloured lines and golden spots. 



This butterfly varies considerably both in size and in the amount and 

 depth of the pink colour on the wings. 



