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THE FORKED BUTTERFLY.” 
Papilio Furcillata. 
PLATE XL, 
Vanessa furcillata, Say’s American Entomology, vol. ii. 
pl. 27. 
THE wings are angular, with a common fulyous 
band, and two fulvous spots on the superior ones ; 
beneath, brown, with black lineations. The supe- 
rior wings are black above, with a broad fulyous 
sub-marginal band, which is bifid at the costal 
margin, having the exterior division terminated by 
a white spot, and the inner division by a pale 
yellow one ; between the band and the base of the 
wing are two fulvous transverse spots ; costal rib 
near the base with yellow variegations ; inferior 
wings black above, with a broad fulvous sub- 
marginal band, and on the black margin is a series 
of six or seven small sub-lunate purplish ophalescent 
spots ; all the wings beneath are blackish, and very 
numerous transverse blacker lineations, some of 
which are undulated, and deep velvet black ; a com- 
mon pale brownish sub-marginal band, also with 
the blackish lineations ; the antenne are yellow 
at the tip of the club ; venter, dull whitish. 
This pretty species of butterfly was observed by 
