210 ORDER LEPIDOPTERA. 



Cy.ntia carihi. Vanessa cardui (Godart). (Plate xlvi, figs. I, 2.) 



Anterior wing : Disk reddish orange, extending near the base ; apica] part nearly black, 

 marked with quadrangular spots, the two smallest placed just to the right pf the other 

 two : the large costal spot within the four spots S] "ken of, is divided into three parts 

 by the nervures : margin and edges trimmed with white brown, and an interrupted 

 line which reaches the costa between the white -puts and apex. Posterior wings 

 reddish orange, their inner margin covered with long brown hair : upon the disk of 

 orange there are four regular round black -] "t-. an imperfectly formed bar within, 

 with two n>ws of black -pots without, placed with long diameters at right angles to 

 each other ; the edge is trimmed with white. The hindwing i> orange, spotted all over 

 with Mack spots : the costal margin, which is connected under the forewings, is 

 white. Beneath, the coloring is brighter on the forewings, but the pattern is much 

 the same as above. The hindwings are ornamented with four distinct eyes, the two 

 smallest in the middle : the centre is black ; then a partial ray of blue, then of black, 

 then a distinct one of buff margined with Mack. Towards the outer ancle there is 

 often a fifth much smaller eve. arranged on a line with the others. The whole of the 

 portion withiu the eyes, and the nerves, are all white, with numerous large and small 

 white and light brown angulated spots and bars. 



Cynthia huntera ( Kirhy). 

 Papilio cARDri virginiensis ( Drury). P. iole (Cramer). Vanessa hfntera (Dale, Stephens). 



Edges of the wings rounded, or only subangulated. Disk of both pair of wings orange red, 

 brown at base, and darker at the apex ; disk broken by black irregular transverse 

 bars connected by delicate lines : apical part marked w ith four silvery white spots ; 

 the two smallest are outside of the larger, and the costal one is divided by the black 

 nervure into two parts. There is also a large subquadrangular spot resting on the 

 costa : outer margin trimmed with parallel scollops of white, brown and orange. On 

 the posterior wing the ornaments con-i>t of two black circles with blue centres, be- 

 tween which are two black spots. The margin does not differ much from that of the 

 f irewins. except that the scollops take the form of lunate spots : upon the anal angle, 

 these spots have blue discs. Beneath, there is much greater complexity as well as 

 beauty of coloring. The principal and characteristic ornaments are the eyes on the 

 apical angle of the forewings, and two large eyes surrounded with black upon the 

 hindwintrs : the disk is a patch of white composed of mealy scollop] id lines. The 

 margin below resembles that above. 

 The caterpillar is said by Drury to be green, with black rings around the body, and 



feeds on balsam or lady's-jiwds. 



