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PAINTED LADY. 



Cynthia Cardui. 



PLATE XIX. Fig. 2. 



Pap. Cardui, Linn. — Donovan, ix. pi. 292. — Leivin, pi. 6 — 



Vanessa Cardui, Samou Curtis — The Painted Lady, 



Wilkes, pi. 107 Harris, Aur. pi. 11. 



The genus Cynthia approaches so closely to th<» 

 foregoing, that if it is held to be distinct, it can only 

 be regarded with propriety as a subgenus. The 

 chief difference is in the form of the wings, which 

 in Cynthia are scarcely angular, and the hinder pair 

 are rounded and simply scolloped without any pro- 

 jecting lobe. The club of the antennjfi is very 

 short and abrupt, and the palpi are long, gradually 

 narrowing to a point. The upper wings of the only 

 species found in Britain are tawny-brown at the 

 base, the 'middle ochre-red, inclining to carmine, 

 with a very irregular transverse patch of black, and 

 a large portion at the apex black, adorned with five 

 white spots, the inner one largest, and placed 

 obliquely, the others somewhat rounded, and the 

 two in the middle rather minute. Near the margin 



