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iiODERli SYSTEM. 
Genus 31?. VANESSA. Fabr., Latr., Leach. Papilio. Linn.i 
Haworth. 
Antenna’ terminated with an abrupt short club : palpi contiguous, and 
terminated gradually in a point; the two combined bearing some 
resemblance to a rostrum : anterior pair of feet in both sexes short 
and very hairy ; tarsi with double nails. 
Chrysalis suspended by its tail. 
Caterpillar spiny. 
Sp. 1. Van. Atalnnta (red admirable). Wings indented, black with 
white spots ; a red fascia in the upper wings, and another on the 
margin of the under wings. 
Inhabits Europe : the larva feeds on the nettle. 
Sp. 1 . Van. Cartlui (painted lady). Wings orange, indented ; variegated 
with black and white spots : four ocelli on the under side of the 
posterior wings. 
Inhabits Europe : the larva feeds on the thistle. 
Sp. 3. Van. Antiopa (Camberwell beauty). Wings angulated and black? 
the borders whitish. 
Cynthia Cardui. Fabr., Leach. 
Inhabits Europe. This species has become exceedingly rare in this 
country. Mr. Haworth has observed (in the first part of his Lcpido* 
ptera Britannica) “ There is something very extraordinary in the peri- 
odical but irregular appearance of this species, Papilio Edusa ( Colias 
Hyale of this work) and Pap. Cardui. They are plentiful all over the 
kingdom in some years ; after which Antiopa in particular will not be 
seen by any one for eight, ten, or more years, and then appear as plen- 
tiful as before. To suppose they come from the Continent, is an idle 
conjecture; because the English specimens are easily distinguished 
from all others by the superior whiteness of their borders. Perhaps 
their eggs, in this climate, like the seeds of some vegetables, may 
occasionally lie dormant for several seasons, and not hatch until 
some extraordinary but undiscovered coincidence awake them into 
active life.” 
Sp. 4. Van. Io (peacock). 
Inhabits nettles. 
Sp. 5. Van. polychloros (large, tortoise-shell). 
Inhabits Europe : the larva on the elm. 
Sp. 6. Van. Urtiac (small tortoise-shell). 
Inhabits Europe : the larva feeds on nettles. 
Sp. 7. Van. C. album (comma). 
Inhabits woods : the larva feeds on the nettle, hop, willow, and th® 
currant. 
