VANESSID.E. 293 



DESCRIPTION. 



Very near V. Urticce, but distinct. Antenna black ; knob pale at the tip ; a white spot at the 

 base of each joint : wings angular, subsinuated and dentated, black-brown, above with a marginal 

 orange-tawny band common to both, which at the anterior extremity terminates in a fork, or two 

 branches tipped with white, or pale ; there are also two orange-tawny bars at the anterior margin of 

 the primaries : the secondary wings have a series in the margin consisting of five blue crescents ; 

 underneath, at the base they are brown-black, inscribed with black transverse wavy lines, and the 

 brown part is edged with a black line ; towards the posterior margin the brown of the wings is 

 paler and marbled, so as to form a broad marginal sinuated band. 



(411) 3. Vanessa Antiopa. Antiopa Vanessa. 



Vanessa Antiopa. Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. iv, 499. Steph. Haustell. i, 45, 5. Jerm. Butt. 68, 113. Sam. Comp. 



238, 3. Leach E. E. ix, 128. Curtis Brit. Ins. ii, t. xcvi. God. Lepidopt. i, 5, 1. Lat. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. ii, 380. 



Meig. Schmett. ii, 75, 3, t. xvii,/. 3. Dun. Butt. (Nat. Libr. Ent. iii, 168,) t. xviii,/. 2. 

 Papilio Antiopa. Linn. Syst. Nat. ii, 776, 165; Fn. Suec. 1056. Fab. Ent. Syst. iii, 115,355. Scop. Cam. 419. 



Hubn. Schmett. 15, 4, t. xvi, / 79. Wienn. Verz. 175, 4. Illig. Mag. iii, 185. Lew. Pap. t. i, /. 1—5. Don. Ins. 



iii, 45, t. Lxxxix. Berk. Syn. i, 126. Haw. Lepidopt. i, 27, 32. Stew. Elem. ii, 126. Sulz. Ins. t. xiv, /. 85. Esp. Schmett. 



t. xii, /. 2. Herbst. Schmett. t. clxvii, /. 5, 6. Ernst. Pap. i, t. i. Berg. Ins. t. xxxix. Panz. Fn. Germ, lxxxix, t. 23. 



Bork. Schmett. i, 195, 3. Rhein. Mag. i, 258, 48. Schneid. Schmett. 156, 83, t. i, /. 4, 6. xMiill. Zool. Dan. 1295 ; 



Fn. Frid. 54, 319. Brahm. Ins. Kal. 17, 8. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. ii, 150, 1016. Fuess. 7ns. 30, 572. Lang. Schmett. 34, 



252—256. Schwarz. Raupen-hal 162, 342, 486, 619. Schrank. Fn. Boic. 1333. Fourc. Ent. Par. 233, 1 . Vtil.Ent. 



11, 41, 72. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 615. Ochs. Schmett. i, 110, 4. Lett. Nat. Comp. Frontisp. Wilks. Butt. 58, t. cxiii. 

 Morio. Linn. Fn. Suec. 1st Ed. 772. Geoff. Ins. i, 35, 1. 



Jonst. Ins. t. v. Pet. Gaz. t. xii, f. 10. Rai. Hist. Ins. 135. Papilio maxima, &c. Ros. Ins. i, t. i, f. 1. Seba. Thes. 

 iv, 32, /. 1 , 2, 5, 6 . Hoffn. Ins. t. iii, /. 2, and t. vi, /. 3. De Geer Ins. i, 305, t. xxi, /, 8, 9. H— s. Aurel. t. xii, d. e. 

 Schseff. Elem. t. xciv, f. 1 ; Icon. t. lxx, f. 1,2. 



Expansion of the wings 3 inches. 



Taken in Canada by Capt. Sheppard. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body brown-black, with a reddish tint. Antenna? externally with a white spot on each joint, 

 underneath reddish ; knob not much incrassated, pale at the tip : legs, except the thighs which are 

 of the colour of the body, pale : wings of a rich reddish brown-black, with a buff-coloured posterior 

 margin dusted here and there with black ; parallel with the margin is a macular band consisting of 

 blue spots : in the primaries the costal nervure is marbled with buff-colour, and there are two trans- 

 verse angular bars of the same colour near the apex ; underneath the wings have a marginal pale 

 band, more dusted with black than the upper one ; the remainder of this surface is of a cinerascent, 

 but not pale, brown transversely marbled with black lines ; it exhibits the two marginal costal bars, 

 but smaller and less distinct, and there is a paler dot on the disk of each wing; the marginal band 

 is internally angular, and the margin of the wings is sinuato-angular, with the rudiments of two tails. 



In the European specimens the marginal band is usually white. 



