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PEARL-BORDERED LIKENESS. 
Melitwa Athalia. 
PLATE XII. Fig. 2. 
Pap. Athalia, Esper. — Pap. Dictynna, Lewin, pi. 14. fig. 5. 
and 6 — Pearl-bordered Likeness, Harris Melitsea Atha- 
lia, Stephens. 
The expansion of the wings is from sixteen lines 
to two inches : the colour tawny orange, marked 
with black, the latter running in several undulating 
lines across the surface, the base blackish. Beneath, 
the anterior wings are pale brownish-yellow, With a 
few transverse streaks of black ; the posterior i>air with 
several pale angular spots near the base, edged with 
black ; behind this there is a continuous curved band 
of large pale spots, also edged with black ; and near 
the margin two series of black crescents. The fringe 
is yellowish-white, spotted with black. 
The caterpillar is black and spiny, with two rows 
of small white dots on each segment, and tubercles 
of a similar colour on the sides. It feeds on the 
narrow and broad leaved plantain, and also, accord- 
ing to Wilkes, on the common heath. The butter- 
fly is not uncommon in Devonshire, and many other 
