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THE AMERICAN COMMA BUTTERFLY. 
Papilio C. Aureum. 
PLATE XI. 
Papilio C. Aureum, Shaw's Nat. Mis. pl. 1046.—Smith’s 
and Abbot's Insects of America, pl. 11. 
THE superior wings, and upper half of the lower 
ones, are of a bright orange red, spotted with 
variously-shaped marks of black; the lower ones 
with a large circular black comma-like spot in the 
middle of the orange ; the upper wings are deeply 
indented and scalloped on their edges, and have a 
broad margin of black, within which is a border of 
small white dots ; the under half of the lower wings 
are black, with longitudinal clouds of dark steel 
gray, approaching to blue in some species; they 
are also deeply indented and scalloped on their 
edges, with short subcaudate wings; the body is 
olive green, and the eyes orange. 
The Papilio C. Awrewm inhabits Virginia and 
Georgia, where its caterpillar feeds on the leaves of 
the white lime-tree ; it changes to a chrysalis in 
the month of May, and emerges the complete in- 
sect in June. 
