346 Canadian Butterflies. 



ART. XXIX. — Description of two species of Canadian Butterflies. 

 I. Cynthia cardui (the painted lady.) 



The Imago. — The colours of tbe upper side are brown, tawny- 

 orange, black and white distributed as follows : — The fore wing 

 at the base or next the body is brown ; a large space of the tip 

 black, with five white spots. Of these latter, the one nearest the 

 body is the largest ; it is of an irregular oblong shape, one end 

 touching the front margin of the wing. The other four white 

 Bpots are nearer the tip of the wing, and arranged in a short 

 curved row. The outer margin of the wing is also marked with 

 several whitish or yellowish semi-circular spots. Situated on the 

 edge, and parallel with these at the distance of about half a line 

 from the border, is a second row of obscure yellow spots. The 

 greater part of the central portion of the fore-wing is tawny- 

 orange, with some irregular black patches, connected with 

 each other by slender points of the same colour. The hind wing 

 is principally tawny-orange or reddish, with three rows of black 

 spots in the posterior half. The first row consists of five round 

 Spots, the two largest sometimes touching each other ; the next, 

 of seven or eight small irregular diamond-shaped spots ; while 

 those of the third or marginal row are somewhat larger, and of a 

 triangular shape, projecting out to the edge of the wing. About 

 the centre of the wing there is a large irregular spot of black 

 curving across it. The base and front margins are black. The 

 posterior edge is delicately bordered with crescents of yellow. The 

 upper side of the body and the base of the wings are covered 

 with fine long brown hairs. 



• On the underside the fore-wings are marked nearly the same 

 as on the upperside, but the dark colours are not so strong. The 

 undersides of the hind wings are beautifully dappled with olive- 

 brown, white, and grey, the veins being white. Near the poste- 

 rior margin is a row of five beautiful eye-shaped spots, the two in 

 the centre beina- the smallest. Behind these is a slender chain of 

 elongated light-blue spots, each with a narrow black border, and 

 nearer the edge are two other faint parallel black lines, the outer 

 one consisting of a series of short curves. The underside of the 

 body and legs are yellowish- white, the clubs of the antennse tipped 

 with the same colour. 



The Larva. — The caterpillar is dark-brown, or nearly black, 

 with greyish scattered hairs, and several rows of tufted spines, 



