6 CONSPECTUS OF BUTTERFLIES. 
in others short and minute; antenne with more than thirty 
joints, the clubbed tips short, abrupt, blunt, large, and flattish ; 
fore legs small, the feet with a small cushion, in some the nails 
are double, in others undivided ; upper wings longish and trian. 
gular; under wings roundish, 
Egg notknown; caterpillar downy, with spines in some, and 
fleshy warts in others ; chrysalis somewhat angular with a blunt 
head, suspended by the tail. 
Tue YeLLow Crescent (M. Athalia, SrmpuEns) appears the 
end of May and beginning of July. Wings one inch seven- 
twelfths to three-fourths ; above black tessellated with tawny ; 
second pair underneath with tawny spots at the base, a band of 
yellow spots in the middle, and a row of yellow crescents at the 
tip; male smaller and more distinctly marked. Caterpillar brown. 
Not common. Caen Wood, Middlesex ; Dartmoor, Devonshire, 
and Hartley Wood; Essex, Dover. 
THE MoRNING Crescent (J. Pyronia, Srernens) appears in 
June. Wings one inch seven-twelfths ; first pair above tawny, 
with black blotches, underneath with a black band and tawny 
nervures ; second pair black with a tawny streak, underneath 
with a whitish band and black spots and nervures, Probably 
only a variety of M. Athalia. Rare, Middlesex and Peckham, 
Surrey. 
Tne Brack Crescent (M. tessellata, SrepuENs) appears the 
beginning of May. Wings one inch two-thirds ; above tawny, 
tessellated with black; second pair underneath straw colour, 
with three yellowish bands and black crescents ; the fringes 
white, intersected with black. Caterpillar black, with a pale 
line on the sides. Probably only a variety of M. Athalia. Very 
rare. Caen wood, Middlesex. 
Tue Scasrous (M. Artemis, LeAcn) appears the middle of 
May, and rarely quits its natal field Wings one inch one-third to 
one inch eleven-twelfths ; above tawny, waved with black, and 
spotted with yellowish ; second pair underneath with three buff- 
coloured bands, and, on both surfaces, a streak of eye-like spots. 
Female larger and more distinctly marked. Caterpillar, black 
above, and yellowish beneath, with a row of white dots on the 
back and sides, feeds on the devil’s bit secabious (Scadiosa 
succisa) &c, Remains in society under a silken web from Sep- 
tember till the middle of April. Chrysalis greenish white, with 
black spots and yellowish tubercles on the hinder part of the 
body. Notcommon. Norfolk, Suffolk, Middlesex, Devon. 
THe GLANVILLE (M. Cinvia, LeAcn) appears the middle of 
June, Wings one inch three-fourths to eleven-twelfths ; above 
orange tawny, tessellated with black; second pair underneath 
with three yellowish bands, edged and spotted with black, and 
towards the hinder margin, on both surfaces, a row of eye-like 
spots. Female darker below than the male, Caterpillar black, 
with a row of white spots on the sides ; it feeds on various kinds 
of plaintain, appears in autumn, and lives in society beneath 
a silken web till April. Chrysalis brown beneath, with tawny 
