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with yellow towards the base ; the under side is shining, 

 dark-brown, with waved lines of deep black, a small yellow 

 spot near the middle of each wing, and two others on the 

 border. The caterpillar is gregarious, and lives on various 

 trees, such as the birch and willow : it is black, with a series 

 of spots on the back, and some of the legs red. 



LEPIDOPTERA. NYMPHALIDJI. 



CYNTHIA. 



Generic Distinctions. Antenna with a short and abrupt club ; 

 palpi long; wings scarcely angular, the hinder pair rounded and 

 simply scalloped, without any projection. 



CYNTHIA CARDUI. (Plate VIII.) Painted Lady. Upper 

 wings tawny-brown at the base, ochre-red in the middle, with 

 a very irregular patch of black ; a large portion of the apex 

 is also black, adorned with five white spots, of which the 

 inner one is the largest and placed obliquely ; near the mar- 

 gin is a series of white crescents and a row of faint-yellow 

 spots ; the secondary wings are the same colour, with three 

 rows of black spots behind, the first being composed of five 

 round spots, the second of crescents, and the third 



