292 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



Family VANESSID^. Vanessidans. 



CLXXXI. Genus VANESSA. Fab. 



xxxi. Subgenus Grapta K. Polygonia Hubn. 



Secondary wings insci'ibed underneath. 



(409) 1. * Vanessa (Grapta) C. argenteum. Silver C. V. Grapta. 



V. G. ( C argenteum) alls angulatis fulvis nigra maculatis, sublus nigro cinereoque marmoratis et nebulosis ; secundariis 



C argenteo inscriptis. 

 Silver C. Vanessa ( Grapta) with angulated tawny wings, underneath marbled and clouded with black and cinereous ; the 



secondary inscribed with a silver C. 



PLATE III, FIG. C, 7. 



Expansion of the wings 2 inches. 



A single specimen taken in Lat. 54. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Antennas brown above, pale below ; knob pale at the tip : wings angular, cut out into sinuses 

 which are dentated : primaries above orange-tawny, with five black round spots forming a right- 

 angled triangle with each other ; two triangular costal bars and posterior margin black ; above the 

 black marginal band is a series of paler tawny triangular spots; underneath the wings are veined, 

 marbled and clouded with black, brown, and cinereous ; the primaries have a very broad paler band 

 near the margin : secondaries above dull-orange, at the base with a black spot or two near the anterior 

 margin ; the other half is black with a transverse series of triangular pale spots, the interior ones 

 being nearly obsolete ; the disk is inscribed with a slender silver somewhat obtusangular C, with 

 the concavity towards the anterior margin. 



(410) 2. * Vanessa furcillata. (Say.) Furcillate Vanessa. 



Vanessa furcillata. Say Am. Ent. ii, t. xxvii. 

 Expansion of the wings 2 inches. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. 



Common in the N. West Territory and the vicinity of Fort William. 



