THE AMERICAN 
PAINTED LADY BUTTERFLY. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
jlntenn^^ thickening at the end, and generally 
terminating in a clavated tip. 
Wings (when at rest) meeting upwards. Flight 
diurnal. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER, tfc 
Butterfly with angulated fulvous wings, varie- 
gated with black and white; the lower 
pair reticulated with white beneath, and 
marked with two ocellated spots. 
American Painted Ladj Butterfly. 
Smith. Abbot, AT. Amer, 
Ins. pL g. 
So great is the general similarity between this and 
the European Bntterily, called Papilio cardui, or 
Painted Lady, that Linnaeus and most other natura- 
lists seem to have considered it as the same species. 
It has however been regarded as distinct by Fabricius, 
whose opinion is justified by an accurate collation of 
the European and American specimens j and, as a 
general or obvious mark of distinction, it may be ob- 
served, that the wings in the American insect are 
shorter and broader in proportion than in the Euro- 
pean kind. It is found in the provinces of Georgia 
and Carolina, where its caterpillar feeds on different 
species of Gnaphalium. 
