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yellow, posteriorly blue, streaked with throe blueish white 

 (lots ; there are also two of these dots without the eye, the 

 first has a faint blue iris. Margin of the wings brownisli 

 black. Secondary wings, above, towards tlio margin have a 

 large eye-like spot, with a large black pupil spotted with 

 blue, and a black iris with a whitish margin, which Ulteriorly 

 terminates in a black crescent. The wings nndcrneath are 

 brown, marbled, banded, and spotted with black, the primary 

 have posteriorly five obsolete white dots, and the secondary 

 one. 



Caterpillar. Black, spotted with white. 



Chrysalis. Green, dotted with gold. 



Obsenatioii. This species fi-equently hyberaates in the 

 imago or perfect state, and occasionally survives the winter, 

 or according to liralnn, in the three states of egg, pupte, and' 

 imago. 



VANESSA ANTIOPA, WHITE BORDERED. 



LewiH,pl.\. Donouan,v.3,p.89. Vu»caH,pl.l8,/ig.2. 



Butterfly. Wings with a white or pale posterior margin 

 powdered more or less with black, a series of blue spots 

 behind it. Primary wings with costal nrcolet marbled with 

 white, with two white .spots at the anterior margin near the 

 tip. Wings underneath marbled, otherwise as above, but 

 without the blue spots. Secondary with a central white dot 

 in each. 



Caterpillar. Black, with four square dorsal ferruginous 

 spots ; legs red. 



Chrysalis. Black, dotted with ta\vny. 



Observation. There is somethmg very extraordinary in 

 the periodical but irregular appearance of this specie.s, C. 



