THE 
AMERICAN COMMA BUTTERFLY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER, 
Antennce thickening towards the end^ and ter» 
minating in a clavated tip* 
Wings (when at rest) meeting upwards* Flight 
diurnal. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, ^c. 
Butterfly with angularly-indented fulvous wings 
spotted with black ; the lower pair black- 
ishj and marked beneath with, a golden 
or comma-shaped spot. 
The American Comma Butterfly, 
Smith and Abbot N» Arner^ 
Ins. pi. II. 
The Papilio C-aureum or American Comma But- 
terfly inhabits Georgia and Virginia, where its cater- 
pillar feeds on the leaves of the white lime- tree, and 
changes to a chrysalis in the month of May, from 
which in that of June emerges the complete insect. 
