CYANE; OR, ZIGZAG. 
way, there is a broad, irregular, whitish or 
cream-coloured bar, which crosses the wing 
to within a quarter of an inch of the fan- 
edge. The under wings are of a milky or 
cream-coloured white ; having three rows of 
black spots crossing the wings from side to 
side, parallel to each other, amounting to 
about twenty-one in each wing. They are all 
bordered with a band of black, which is about 
a quarter of an inch broad; ornamented with 
a beautiful and very peculiar zigzag line,^ 
which gives the English appellaiion to this fly. 
This zigzag line, taking it's beginning from 
the tip or apex of one of the superior wings, 
continues all along round the borders of each 
pf the four wings, till it reaches the tip of the 
other superior wing. 
The under side of this Butterflv has a broad 
zigzag border, similar to that of the upper, 
but a little narrower in the under wing?. The 
general ground of the four wings, on this side, 
is a sort of cream-colour ; the inferior wing 
being spotted similar to the upper side, pretty 
large, and crouded near the thorax, where the 
ground 
