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THE FORKED BUTTERFLY. 



Papilio Furcillata. 



PLATE XL. 



Vanessa furcillata, Say's American Entomology, vol. ii. 

 pi. 27. 



THE wings are angular, with a common fulvous 

 band, and two fulvous spots on the superior ones ; 

 beneath, brown, with black lineations. The supe- 

 rior wings are black above, with a broad fulvous 

 sub-marginal band, which is bifid at the costal 

 margin, having the exterior division terminated 

 by a white spot, and the inner division by a 

 pale yellow one ; between the band and the base 

 of the wing, are two fulvous transverse spots ; 

 costal rib near the base with yellow variegations ; 

 inferior wings above, black, with a broad fulvous 

 sub-marginal band, and on the black margin is a 

 series of six or seven small sub-lunate purplish opha- 

 lescent spots ; all the wings beneath are blackish, 

 with very numerous transverse blacker lineations, 

 some of which are undulated, and deep velvet black ; 

 a common pale brownish sub-marginal band, also 

 with the blackish lineations ; the antennae are yellow 

 at the tip of the club ; venter, dull whitish. 



This pretty species of butterfly was observed by 

 Mr Say several times in the northwest territory, 



