84 DUrrEKFLY COLLECTOR'S 



Claws long, double ; foot cushions short. 



IVtngs scalloped ; primury trlan{,'ular, Hii1)f"alcato ; sccomluru 



between wedge-shaped and ovate, fonniug together a 



groove to receive the abdomen. 

 Egg, Caterpillar, and Chrysalis, like those oil'unessa. 



CINTIIIA CARDUI, PAINTED LADY. 



Lcmiii, pi. (J. Donovan, v. 9, p. 292. Duncan, pi. 10. Jig. 2. 



BuUerfly. Primary wings above, ta^vny-l)rown at the 

 base, in the middle tawny, ollcn with a tint of carmine and 

 orange, with three irregular black spots in a transverse 

 l)and, at the tip black, with several square white contiguous 

 spots, the three intennediate ones distinct, and two much 

 smaller than the others, all forming a chaplet open to the 

 anterior margin, between which and the posterior margin is 

 a row of white crescents; underneath nearly the same, but 

 the carmine tint, iu recently disclosed specimens, is more 

 prevalent and vivid ; the costal areolct is transversely 

 streaked with black, three white bar.s at the anterior margin ; 

 the tip is light brown with two eyelets, with a white pupil 

 and a round white .spot. Secondary wings above, tawny 

 brown, at the base with a paler spot and hairy ; tawny 

 orange at the posterior margin, with a triple marginal scries 

 of black spots, underneath clouded and marbled with pale 

 olive brown, pale yellow, and white, intersected with white 

 veins, with five eyelets near the po.stcrior margin, the 

 external one .spurious and oblong, the second and fifth the 

 largest, with a yellow iris edged with Wack. and purple pupil 

 and the two middle ones smaUer with a bine pui)il ; there is 

 a row of olive and white crescents between the eyelets and 

 the posterior margin. 



