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SMALL TORTOISE-SHELL. 
Vanessa Unices. 
PLATE XIX. Fig. 1. 
Pap. TJrticse, Linn. &c. 
The prevailing colour of the upper side is orange- 
red, inclining to yellow, especially on the anterior 
margin ; the latter is marked with three large quad- 
rate black spots, placed obliquely, beyond which 
there is a small white mark ; towards the middle of 
the hinder margin there is another large black spot, 
and two small round ones on the disk ; the hinder 
margin is widely bordered with black, and ornament- 
ed with a series of blue crescents, and two undulat- 
ing lines of pale yellow : the basal half of the under 
wings is black, the rest orange-red, except the hin- 
der margin, which resembles that of the anterior 
wings. On the under side the anterior wings are 
pale yellowish, with three large patches of dark 
brown towards the base ; the tip mottled with brown 
and marked with an indistinct row of dusky cres- 
cents : the basal portion of the under wings is dark- 
brown beneath, with a small white dot in the middle, 
the rest light-grey, mottled.with brown, and marked 
with an indistinct row of bluish-black triangular 
