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SMALL TORTOISE-SHELL. 



Vanessa Urticce. 



PLATE XIX. Fig. 1. 



Pap. Urticae, Linn. &c. 



The prevailing colour of the upper side is orange- 

 red, inclining to yellow, especially on the anterior 

 margin ; the latter is marked with three large quad- 

 rate black spots, placed obliquely, beyond which 

 there is a small white mark ; towards the middle of 

 the hinder margin there is another large black spot, 

 and two small round ones on the disk ; the hinder 

 margin is widely bordered with black, and ornament- 

 ed with a series of blue crescents, and two undulat- 

 ing lines of pale yellow : the basal half of the under 

 wings is black, the rest orange red, except the hin- 

 der margin, which resembles that of the anterior 

 wings. On the under side the anterior wings are 

 pale yellowish, with three large patches of dark 

 brown towards the base ; the tip mottled with brown 

 and marked with an indistinct row of dusky cres- 

 cents : the basal portion of the under wings is dark- 

 brown beneath, with a small white dot in the middle, 

 the rest light-grey, mottled with brown, and marked 

 with an indistinct row of bluish-black triangular 



