170 



A.DMIRAL RED 



Vanessa Atalantd 



PLATE XX. Fig. 1. 



Pap. Atalanta, Linn. — Donovan, viii. pi. 260 — Lewin, p.. 7. 

 — Pap. major nigricans, &c. The Admiral, Ray''!< Ins. 



126. — The Admirable, Albin, p. 3 Admiralis Atalanta, 



the Alderman, Rennie. 



The upper side of this beautiful insect is (Jeep 

 black, with a fine silky gloss : the upper wings 

 have a broad band of red running from the anterior 

 margin obliquely across the surface nearly to the 

 hinder angle, where it is considerably incurved, be- 

 yond which are six white spots, small and rounded, 

 except the two at the anterior margin, of which the 

 inner one is large and quadrate, and the other some- 

 what crescent-shaped ; beyond these there is a faint 

 bluish streak parallel with the apical margin : the 

 under wings have a broad border of red behind, in 

 which there is a s'eries of small angular black spots, 

 and two semicirculai* patches of blue at the inner 

 angles. On the under side of the anterior wings the 

 oblique band is odireous-red, becoming paler at the 

 hinder extremity ; towards the base of the wing there 

 is a narrow waved streak of blue, and two others of 



