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 PLATE CCXCIL 



PAPILIO CARDUI; 



Painted Lady Butterfly* 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Antennas clubbed. Wings erect when at reft. Fly by day, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Wings indented, above orange variegated with black and white ; 

 beneath, four eyes on the pofterior pair* 



PAPILIO Cardui: alis dentatis fulvis albo nigroque variegatis t 

 pofticis fubtus ocellis quatuor. Linn. Syji. Nat. 2- 

 774. 157.— '-Fn. Sv. 1054 

 — Fab. Ent. Syji. T. yp. i* 104.. fp. 320* 

 Schaff. Icon. tab. 97. fig. 5, 6. 

 Ernji. Pap. Europ. 1. tab. 7. 

 Albini Inf. tab. 56. 

 Cram. Inf. 3. tab. 16. fig. E. F. 

 Reaum. Inf. I. tab. id. fig. II, 12. 

 Hoeffn. Inf. tab. J. fig. 3* 



The Painted Lady Butterfly is a local fpecies, and therefore not 

 very common. In fome feafons, thefe Infects appear in confider- 

 able numbers, and then again are not feen for feveral years. They 



B were 



