294 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



(412) 4. Vanessa Atalanta. Atalanta Vanessa. 



Vanessa Atalanta. Kirb. and Sp. Introd. to Ent. iii, 84, 114. Steph. Illustr. Haustell. i, 4C, 6. Jerai. Butt. 60,111. 



Sam. Compend. 238, 1. Leach _E. £. ix, 138. God. Lepidopt. i, G, 1. Latr. Crust. Arachn. et Ins. ii, 380. Meig. 



Schmett. ii, 74, 2, i. xvii, /. 2. Dun. fiVci. Z?'6r. Ent. iii, 170,) «. xx, /. 1. 

 Papilio Atalanta. Linn. Si/st. Nat. ii, 779, 175; Fn. Suec. 10G0. Fab. Ent. Si/st. iii, 118, 362. Scop. Corn. 424. 



Hubn. Schmctl. t. xv, f. Id, 76. Wienn. Schmett. 174, 1. Illig. Ma#. iii, 187. Schaeff. Icon. t. cxlviii,/. 1, 2. Lew. 



Pap. t. vii,/. 1— 4. Don. 7ns. £. cclx. Berk. Syn. i, 127, 23. Haw. Lepidopt. i, 28, 33. Stew. Elem. ii, 127. Esp. 



Schmett. t. xiv, /. 1. Ernst. Pap. i, i. vi, /. 6. Herbst. Schmett. t. clxxx. Berg. 7ns. f. xx, /. 1 — 11. Panz. Fn. 



Germ, xxii, t. 20. Petagn. Inst. Ent. ii, 465, t. vii, /. 6. Hof. Berl. Mag. 58, 4. Mull. Zool. Dan. 1300 ; TV Frid. 



45,323. Bork. Schmett. i, 12, 196, 4. Bhein. May. i, 256, 95. Schneid. Schmett. 154, 82. Brahm. 7ns. TsTaZ. 448, 



314. Ross. Fn. Etrusc. 1017. Fuess. 7ns. 30, 576. Lang. Schmett. 33, 243—246. Schwartz. Raupen-kal. 169, 343, 623. 



Scbrank. Fn. Boic. 1330. Ochs. Schmett. i, 104, 2. Ced. Fn. Ingr. 616. Vill. Ent. 11, 45, 7G. Brit. Butt. 18. t. x. 



f. infirn. Wilks. Pap. 55, £. cv. Ramd. Verdaung 161, 2. 

 Lybithea Atalanta. Lam. ^4«. sans Vertebr. iv, 29, 4. 



Mouff. 7ns. 100, /. 3, 4. Aldrov. 7»s. t. ccxliv, /. 3, 4. Jonst. Ins. t. vii, /. 6. 7 ? Rai. Hist. Lis. 126, 1. Pet. Mus. 

 35, 327. Goed. Ins. i, <. xxvi. Ed. List. t. 1,/. 4. H— s. Ins. 12, if. vi,/. a, b. Blank. 7ns. t. xviii, /. 2, a. d. Mer. 

 Europ. 91 ; Eruc. ii, t. xli. Alb. 7ns. *. iii, / 4. Reaum. 7ns. i, t. x, /. 89. De Geer 7ns. i, t. xxii, /. 5. Geoff. 7ns. 

 ii, 40, 6. Ros. Ins. i ; Pap. i, f. vi. Adm. Ins. t. xxiv. Pod. 7ns. Greec. 72, f. ii, / 3. Pet. Mus. 327 ; Pap. t. ii, 

 /'. 11. H— s. Aurel. t. vi,/. a, h ; Lepidopt. 2. Sepp. iVerfer. 7ns. «. i. Seb. Thes.4, 1, d. 



Expansion of the wings 2 inches and 4 lines. 



Several taken in Canada. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Body black above, grayish beneath. Palpi brown on the upper and pale on the under side; an- 

 tennae internally rufous, externally white, but each joint is black at the tip; knob black, tipped 

 with pale : wings subdentated, brown-black, silky : primaries with an oblique subangular mesal 

 orange band, incurved at the lower extremity; between this band and the apex are several white 

 spots and dots ; in the posterior margin of these wings is a sinus, and the fringe is alternately 

 black and white, so as to form white crescents ; underneath, at the base, the costa is alternately 

 barred with blue-gray and black ; the transverse band is more red, at the costa it is tipped with 

 white, and at the anal angle with pale-yellow; between it and the base are two red streaks, the 

 inner one branching from the band ; beneath these is an indistinct eyelet with a black pupil and 

 o-ray iris ; above the band near the costa is an irregular angular eyelet, or two blue lines confluent 

 at each extremity and including a black islet, then follow the white spots of the upper side but less 

 distinct and near the apex three imperfect eyelets: the secondaries have a marginal broad orange 

 band which almost unites with the band of the primaries, it is marked with four black dots between 

 the nervures and at the anal angle is a double eyelet, with a black iris and blue pupil ; fringe alter- 

 nately black and white ; under side clouded, marbled and spotted with bluish, gray, black and white 

 in the middle, at the costa ia a triangular white spot, dusted with black in the centre, near the pos- 

 terior margin is a band of indistinct cordiform or reniform eyelets with a black iris and bluish pupil, 

 between these and the margin is another band of imperfect eyelets in which the iris is gray and the 

 pupil light brown : at the edge of the wing is a macular band of black crescents. 



This beautiful though common butterfly, to judge from the shape of its wings, seems rather to 

 belong to the genus, or perhaps subgenus, Cynthia ; at any rate it forms a connecting link between 

 it and Vanessa. 



