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pale iris is extended a little above ; in the fourth the black atmosphere appears again and the pupil 

 is dusted with blue ; the fifth eye is imperfect, the pupil is a small black spot, round which the pale 

 iris expands, particularly above ; between these eyelets and the margin is a concatenated series of 

 brown crescents dusted with blue ; in some specimens they are quite covered with blue scales ; these 

 are followed by a white undulated line, succeeded by another series of less distinct crescents ; and 

 the margin terminates with a pale yellow line edged with black : the fringe is white, but brown 

 where the nervures terminate. 



(414) 2. Cynthia Huntera. (Fabricius.) Hunter s Cynthia. 



Cynthia. Fab. Syst. Glossal, in Illiger's Mag. 



Papilio Huntera. Fab. Ent. Syst. iii, 104, 321. Smith Georg. i, 17, t. ix. 



Cardui Virginiensis. Drur. Ins. i, t. v, f. 1. 



Jole. Cram. Pap. i, t. xii, f. E, f. 



Pet. Gazoph. Dec. iv, t. xxxiii, 5. 



Vanessa Huntera. Dairy. Hist. Nat. i, \,t. x. 



Expansion of the wings 2 inches and 7J lines. 



Taken in Canada by Dr. Bigsby. Inhabits the Graplialium obtitsissimum. 

 Abbott. 



DESCRIPTION. 



Wings brown at the base, thickly dusted with tawny scales : primaries orange-tawny in the disk, 

 somewhat reticulated with black lines, band, and spots ; costal margin brown ; apex of the wing 

 brownish-black, with a pale costal bar or crescent, within which and the tip are first two distant 

 white spots and next a pair of white dots near each other ; parallel with the posterior margin is a 

 faint palish linear band : the fringe is alternately brown and white : underneath the primaries are 

 red in the disk, banded, barred, and spotted with black; the costal area is white at the base barred 

 with black ; the apex of the wing is brown with a triangular, and angular white abbreviated band ; 

 between the latter and the apex is a didymous eyelet, or two confluent eyelets with a blackish pupil 

 including an indistinct blue and white spot, the iris is pale and the atmosphere black ; in the other 

 the pupil is brown crowned with a white spot, and has a middle blue crescent; next the costal mar- 

 gin is a pair of black subtriangular spots ; the posterior margin is blue, gray, and whitish, with two 

 black crescents next the anal angle ; and a black line running parallel with the margin, terminating 

 at some distance from the apical angle in an oblong black spot : the secondary wings are orange- 

 tawny with four black eyelets in a series parallel with the posterior margin, with blue pupils, next 

 these is a macular baud consisting of concatenated black crescents, terminating at the anal angle in a 

 straight black line including a blue one ; underneath these wings are brown at the base, almost 

 reticulated with paler lines and bands; in the disk are two eye-like spots, the innermost round, and 

 the outermost elliptical; then follows a whitish broad angular band, dusted with black, and widest 

 next the abdomen : the posterior part of these wings exhibits first a broad brown anteriorly bilobed 



